On the road, people take you at face value
“If you travel, you escape being labeled with class stereotypes. I come from a very middle-class family of lawyers and architects. Travel was an immense relief — it got rid of the pressure from above and from below. If you’re out on the road, people have to take you at face value.”
–Bruce Chatwin, interview with Michael Ignatieff in Granta 21, Spring 1987
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