People don’t take trips, trips take people.
- Topic: Travel
- Location: Mexico, Playa Del Carmen
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow eating agony of a lie is never lost.
It is a hard thing to leave any deeply routined life, even if you hate it.
Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day; it helps. Then, when it gets finished, you are always surprised.
Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
This is the law: The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental.
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The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
