Andrew Evans quotes

“Don't be a tourist. Plan less. Go slowly. I traveled in the most inefficient way possible and it took me exactly where I wanted to go.”
-- Andrew Evans

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“I never count countries. Travel is not a contest.”
-- Andrew Evans

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“Witnessing Panama's overnight transition from banana republic to middle-class retirement haven is like watching the Univision version of Extreme Makeover: it feels so tacky but you can't change channels because you just have to find out what happens next.”
-- Andrew Evans

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“The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.”

“Many times when you're a tourist you can just stay on the surface and not really experience the place you're visiting, which will probably leave you disappointed. Everywhere has something interesting; it's just about being curious enough to find it and scratch where you have to scratch and stay longer and walk further.”

“It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.”

“To justify God's ways to man.”

“I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.”

“One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.”

Source : "The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons". Book by A. R. Ammons, 1990.

“How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?”

“It was good to travel to the other side of the world.”

“Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“My life and career is my own adventure.”