Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.
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Tahir Shah
A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours on the back of the seat ahead. But seventy-some hours will not seem so long to you if you tell...
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Amy Hempel
The impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help.
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Markus Zusak
People know your tragedies and they treat you like you’re not human. Like you’re a three-headed goat. A monster from some other planet. They keep reminding you of your pain. You see how they look at me? They’re stuck on that person I used to...
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Eric Jerome Dickey
My opponents attitude is, 'If it moves, tax it, if it keeps moving, regulate it and when it stops, subsidize it.
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Rob Simmons
More Quotes By Ella Maillart
I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.
Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.
Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.
One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.
