There seemed to me nothing more perfect in travel than boarding a train just at nightfall and shutting the bedroom door on an icy, riotous city and knowing the morning would show me a new latitude. I would leave anything behind, I thought, for a sleeper on a southbound express.
Paul Theroux, The Old Patagonian Express, on leaving Chicago.
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"Whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong."...Oscar Wilde
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