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Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
– Paul Theroux

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  1. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. – Paul Theroux
  2. He didn’t really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself. – Julian Barnes
  3. If I read enough about one country I sometimes found that the intensity of the reading removed by desire to travel there. – Paul Theroux
  4. In travel, as in many other experiences in life, once is usually enough. – Paul Theroux
  5. Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience. – Paul Theroux
  6. Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel. – Paul Theroux
  7. You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time. – Paul Theroux
  8. If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future? – Stephen Hawking
  9. I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. – Robert Louis Stevenson
  10. Travel makes me feel like a bird,Travel gives me a sense of freedom,Travel makes me come alive! – Archana Chaurasia Kapoor
  11. For my part, i travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move – Robert Davis Stevenson
  12. So, go. Travel far. Travel courageously. Travel young. – Alanda Kariza
  13. In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed. – Paul Theroux
  14. …a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists. – Paul Theroux
  15. The measure of civilized behavior is compassion. – Paul Theroux
  16. There’s always a way if you’re not in a hurry. – Paul Theroux
  17. You go away for a long time and return a different person – you never come all the way back – Paul Theroux
  18. Last days? Don’t they know? These are the traits of all days, every day, everywhere. – Paul Theroux
  19. Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin. – John Green
  20. Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled. – Alex Garland
  21. Tourists and imperialists do not come to be taught. They call things the way they call things at home. – Thorsten J Pattberg
  22. When you’re feeding the second coachload of tourists that day you aren’t thinking about the birthday party for fifty next week. – Robin McKinley
  23. In any case, a little danger is a small price to pay for ridding a place of tourists. – Tahir Shah
  24. Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid. – Hedy Lamarr
  25. Any girl can be glamorous. All she has to do is stand still and look stupid. – Hedy Lamarr
  26. In her glamorous quest for the darkest light and the lowest high, she now found herself wallowing on the bottom of a filthy garbage bin. – Terri Blackstock
  27. Show your vulnerability, but have faith. You will succeed. Growth is not glamorous. – Shu Hattori
  28. Isabelle was exactly Simon’s type-”tall, glamorous, and beautiful. Come to think of it, maybe that was everyone’s type. – Cassandra Clare
  29. Everything sinful is glamorous these days, isn’t it? – Aimee Agresti
  30. The glamorous life is a facade, a frauda farce of frivolous triteThe storybook is blank insideChivalry has died – Donato DiCristino
  31. In retrospect we can only be thankful to all the mistakes that we made and to all the lessons that we learned from them! – Avijeet Das
  32. The boring parts don’t last forever. In retrospect, they aren’t even boring. – Ada Calhoun
  33. Retrospect: the sweetener of life. – Kamand Kojouri
  34. I believe there are visions that come to us only in memory, in retrospect. – Marilynne Robinson
  35. I write romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect. – Angeline M Bishop
  36. Decisions are never made in retrospect, hence there is no point regretting them, ever. – David Darson
  37. I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally. – Marilynne Robinson
  38. That’s why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can’t control life, at least you can control your version. – Chuck Palahniuk
  39. Going down 6% grades using only a hand brake and low gears wasn’t for sissies and, in retrospect, might have been for idiots. – Jeffrey H Ryan
  40. I wrote a book on cats. In retrospect, I should have used paper, cause chapter six got hit by a car. – Wynne McLaughlin

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