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The value of being brave, working hard, saving money keeping order depends on what it's for.


Bernhard Schlink


#value-of-bravery #money

To me, travel is more valuable than any stupid piece of bling money can buy.


Raquel Cepeda


#journey #journeying #travel #traveling-abroad #value-in-traveling

Foras Road has a sordid reputation (…) Old crones sat in doorways, while their daughters were pushed out to earn money. It is intriguing that a society which is very covert with sexuality should be so straightforward about prostitution.


Tahir Shah


#india #prostitutes #travel #travel-writing #women

Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you - or unmaking you.


Nicolas Bouvier


#motivational

It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play their own part, to the erasure of the enemy's graveyards and holy places so that his hated name can be forgotten.


Christopher Hitchens


#crime #fear #graveyards #infanticide #murder

For me, boviscopophobia (=the morbid fear of being seen as bovine) is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port.


David Foster Wallace


#phobias #travel #motivational

It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it.


Aldo Leopold


#travel #wilderness #nature

Ritzonia" was the epithet coined by Bernard Bernson, who sold Italian pictures to American millionaires, to describe the unreal, mortifying sameness of their luxury. "Ritzonia," he wrote in 1909, "carries its inmates like a wishing carpet from place to place, the same people, the same meals, the same music. Within its walls you might be at Peking or Prague or Paris or London and you would never know where.


Richard Davenport-Hines


#music

but the reason why the grave-digger made music must have been because there was none in his spade


Herman Melville


#herman-melville #moby-dick #spade #music

Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain, And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.


John Masefield


#travel #nature






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