Re: <documenta X><blast> home

murph the surf (murph@interport.net)
Fri, 15 Aug 1997 00:26:12 +0100

Some quotes on travel:

The map is not the territory.
--Alfred Korzybski

This was the moment I longed for every day. Settling at a heavy inn-table,
thawing and tingling, with wine, bread, and cheese handy and my papers,
books and diary all laid out; writing up the day's doings, hunting for words
in the dictionary, drawing, struggling with verses, or merely subsiding in a
vacuous and contented trance while the snow thawed off my boots.
--Patrick Leigh Fermor

The journey not the arrival matters.
--T.S. Eliot

. . . the open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can
lose himself.
--William Least Heat Moon

. . . I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no
past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an
untried heart.
--Colette

. . . I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake.
The great affair is to move.
--Robert Louis Stevenson

Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet
nowhere, for wherever one is some part of oneself remains on another
continent.
--Margot Fonteyn

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in
having new eyes.
--Marcel Proust

. . . people don't take trips--trips take people.
--John Steinbeck

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of
thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
--Samuel Johnson

A good traveler has no fixed plan and is not intent on arriving.
--Lao Tzu

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
--Paul Theroux

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
--G.K. Chesterton

He gave the impression that very many cities had rubbed him smooth.
--Graham Greene

Yes, travel is advisable. And believe me, the world is a mind. Travel is
mental travel.
--Saul Bellow, from Henderson the Rain King

...If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would
not be much point in moving from one place to another.
--Paul Bowles

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 Louis Stevenson

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man
and the universe.
--Anatole France

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
--Yogi Berra

I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.
--Caskie Stinnett

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
--Lao Tzu

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something
sensational to read in the train.
--Oscar Wilde

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer
than yours.
--John B. Priestly

It is far easier to travel than to write about it.
--David Livingstone

....and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.
--Jack Kerouac

It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical
places.
--Paul Theroux

...wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent.
--Dame Margot Fonteyn

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
--Martin Buber

He won't fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won't fly on any
airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.
--Spalding Gray

It is not down in any map; true places never are.
--Herman Melville

...the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.
--Paul Theroux

It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty
which is the path.
--Soren Kierkegaard

Out battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways
to go. But no matter, the road is life.
--Jack Kerouac

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
--Susan Sontag

Robbin Murphy
murph@artnetweb.com
<i> i o l a </i> http://artnetweb.com/iola/

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