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"The Florentines, in fact, invented the Renaissance, which is the same as saying they invented the modern world--not, of course--an unmixed good."
-Mary McCarthy

"She dreamed, lulled by the train, of getting off at heaven or New York City, whichever she got to first."
-Mary Lee Settle

"Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live. There is, in men, as Peter Quennell said, 'a centrifugal tendency.' In our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation."
-Anatole Broyard

"Irish? In truth I would not want to be anything else. It is a state of mind as well as an actual country. It is being at odds with other nationalities, having quite a different philosophy about pleasure, about punishment, about life, and about death. At least it does not leave one pusillanimous."
-Edna O'Brien

"Chinese were born ... with an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qualities ripened in them.... If ever I am homesick for China, now that I am home in my own country, it is when I discover here no philosophy. Our people have opinions and creeds and prejudices and ideas but as yet no philosophy."
-Pearl S. Buck

"When icicles hang by the wall and blood is nipped and ways be foul, when the Great Lakes freeze into ice packs the size of Rhode Island and shipping is stilled, then folks in the Midwest are moved to fish through the ice, a curious, seasonal madness for which there is no known cure except spring."
-Chris Redman

"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."
-Robert Louis Stevenson

"If you're going to America, bring your own food."
-Fran Lebowitz

Spotlight: London April Quarter 2004

"In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea."
-John Osborne

Spotlight: Central America July Quarter 2004

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet, and the winds long to play with your hair."
-Kahil Gibran

Spotlight: Mumbai, India October Quarter 2004

"But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else."
-E.M. Forster

"Morocco is too curious, too beautiful, too rich in landscape and architecture...always a feast for the eye."
-Edith Wharton