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November 29, 2005

A journey helps us understand more of life

“A journey can help us write better because it has helped us understand something more of life; someone visits India, for instance, and on returning home will write better, say, his memories of his first day at school.”
–Italo Calvino, Hermit in Paris (2003)

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