Jan Myrdal quotes
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“Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return. But the place you have left forever is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes.”
-- Jan MyrdalSource : Jan Myrdal (1980). “The Silk Road: A Journey from the High Pamirs and Ili Through Sinkiang and Kansu”, Orion
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“There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond.”
-- Jan MyrdalSource : Jan Myrdal (1980). “The Silk Road: A Journey from the High Pamirs and Ili Through Sinkiang and Kansu”, Orion
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“Traveling is like falling in love, the world is made new.”
-- Jan MyrdalSource : Jan Myrdal, Gun Kessle (1971). “Gates to Asia: a diary from a long journey”, Pantheon
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“Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.”
Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc
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“You only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.”
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