You think of travelers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one the laziest ways on earth of passing the time. Travel is not merely the business of being bone-idle, but also an elaborate bumming evasion, allowing us to call attention to ourselves with our conspicuous absence while we intrude upon other people's privacy - being actively offensive as fugitive freeloaders.
Paul Theroux, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star. [Opening sentences. My emphahsis.]
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“Everybody in the slum wants to work, and everybody wants to make themselves better,” he said.
Quote via NYT.
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