“If you start looking like vour passport photo, it's high time you went abroad.”
Ephraim Kishon (1924–2005) Israeli author, dramatist, screenwriter and film director
on travel
“Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see you are a person. No! They have to look at a little photograph of you. Then they believe you exist.”
— Jeffrey Eugenides, book The Marriage Plot
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