It is fatal to know to much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as the novelist who is over-certain of his plot.

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Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

— Paul Theroux

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Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

— Paul Theroux

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Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

— Paul Theroux

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Travelling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

— Fanny Burney