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“Traveling always entails infidelity. You do your best to mask the feelings of sly triumph that comes with turning your back on home and all it stands for.”

- Jonathan Raban / Writer

“I’m leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it’s not rainging.”

- Groucho Marx / Actor – Comedian

“…people don’t take trips-trips take people.”

- John Steinbeck / Writer

“All travel is circular. I had been jerked through Asia, making a parabola on one of the planet’s hemispheres. After all, the grand tour is just the inspired man’s way of heading home.”

- Paul Theroux / Writer

“I hadn’t had a perfect moment yet, and I always like to have one before I leave and exotic place. They’re a dood way of bringing things to an end. But you can never plan for one. You never know when they’re coming. It’s sort of like falling in love…with yourself.”

- Spalding Gray / American Monologuist

“The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.”

- Sarah Orne Jewett / Writer

“How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you – you leave bits of yourself fluttering on the fences – little rags and shreds of your very life.”

- Katherine Mansfield / English Writer

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.”

- Freya Stark / British Writer

“…the open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.”

- William Least Heat Moon / American Writer

“…I think about all the different ways we leave people in this world. Cheerily waving goodbye to some at airports, knowing we’ll never see each other again. Leaving others on the side of the road, hoping that we will.”

- Amy Tan / American Writer

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