Retiring is depressing. Stopping is class. I will travel every corner of the world when I do.
Travel Quotes
Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Eliot, Dejan Stojanovic and Ray Bradbury lead the page. The line that rewards a second look is Chesterton’s, in Tremendous Trifles (1909): the whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land but at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land. Wilde’s Importance of Being Earnest (1895) has a character who never travels without her diary, so that she has something sensational to read on the train.
“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes” is credited to Mark Twain and marked misattributed. Swift wrote something close to it in 1710, that falsehood flies and truth comes limping after. A rolling stone gathering no moss, credited to Publilius Syrus, is disputed.
Travelling through Africa isn’t easy. There are challenges to overcome – hotels, food, travel.
Everyone is in travel continuously throughout time. I am one of them
Our deeds still travel with us from afar.
And what we have been makes us what we are.
Two key rules of Third World travel: 1. Never run out of whiskey. 2. Never run out of whiskey.
Experimental writing inspires me. I get my ideas from reading, traveling, and talking.