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Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation; and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind. - [Traveling] Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us. - [Fiction] Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. - [Traveling] "Wishing to go where you don't belong is the condition of most people in the world" was the opening sentence of Trespassing. - Blinding Light (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death. - Hotel Honolulu (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] We drove past Tiny Polski's mansion house to the main road, and then the five miles into Northampton, Father talking the whole way about savages and the awfulness of America--how it got turned into a dope-taking, door-locking, ulcerated danger zone of rabid scavengers and criminal millionaires and moral sneaks. - The Mosquito Coast [Books (First Lines)]
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