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

— Paul Theroux , book The Great Railway Bazaar

Source: The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), Ch. 21.

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American travel writer and novelist 1941

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