Quotes by J. Maarten Troost - Page 1

No one who claims this to be a small world has ever flown across the Pacific.
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Claims
Small World
World
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Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.
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Civilized
Civilized Society
Virtue
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Few things are more enjoyable than lingering over the atlas and plotting a trip.
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Atlas
Enjoyable
Lingering
More Things Than
Few Things
Plotting
Trip
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Like many highly educated people, I didn't have much in the way of actual skills.
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People
Skills
Way
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The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
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Travel
Clarity
Sobriety
Connection
Enhances
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Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.
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Airplane
Fairy
Invisible
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So you've decided to travel around the world. This is an excellent thing to do. It's a precious place, this planet. We should see it.
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Travel World See
Precious
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It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and nothing appreciated.
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American Life
Appreciated
Deprivation
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I was simply restless, quite likely because of a dissatisfaction with the recent trajectory of my life, and if there is a better, more compelling reason for dropping everything and moving to the end of the world, I know not what it is.
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Compelling Reason
Moving
World
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Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.
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Home
Moving
Years
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There's a reason that there are oodles of young Aussies, Germans, Japanese, even Chinese backpackers traipsing around the world. They are unencumbered by debilitating student loans. No such luck for the American Theater Arts major with $120,000 in loans.
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Chinese
Luck
Debilitating
Student
Germans
Japanese
Loans
Student Loans
Unencumbered
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I have been called many things in my life, but if there has been but one constant, one barb, one arrow flung my way time after time, it is the accusation that I am, in essence, nothing more than an escapist. Apparently this is bad, suspect, possibly even un-American.
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Accusation
Constant
Life Time I Am
After
Apparently
Arrow
Bad
Escapist
Flung
My Life
Possibly
Suspect
Un-American
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It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
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Amazed
Courses
Faults
Pedantic
Pointing
Suggesting
Money I Am People
Big Money
Easy Thing
Remarkably
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I had grown accustomed to life being interesting and adventure ridden and, rather childishly, I refused to believe that this must necessarily come to an end and that the rest of my life should be a sort of penance for all the reckless, irresponsible, and immensely fun things I’d done before.
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Adventure
Believe
Fun
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We don't think much about climate change and rising sea levels here in the U.S. Beyond a few gardeners, birders and hikers who notice the changes in our own ecosystem, we live on, blissfully unaware of our changing Earth. Our storms - Katrina, Sandy - are dismissed as once-in-a-century events.
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Climate Change
Gardener
Levels
Rising
Sandy
Sea
Blissfully
Dismissed
Ecosystem
Change Earth Climate
Notice
Storms
Unaware
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Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away.
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Failure
Avoided
Certain
Character
Deficiency
Escapism
Evidence
Temperament
Ask
Ahead
Altogether
Simply
Expect
Led
Misses
Point
Question
Wants
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It is often said that Americans have no sense of history. Ask a college student who Jimmy Carter was and they will likely reply that he was a general in the Civil War, which occurred in 1492, when Americans dumped tea into the Gulf of Tonkin, sparking the First World War, which ended with the invasion of Grenada and the development of the cotton press.
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War
College
Tea
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Bwenawa brought my attention to two wooden planks raised about four feet above the ground. On the ledges were lagoon fish sliced open and lying in the sun, the carcasses just visible through an enveloping blizzard of flies. "You see, " said Bwenawa. "The water dries in the sun, leaving the salt. It's kang-kang [tasty]. We call it salt fish." "Ah," I said. "In my country we call it rotten fish.
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Country
Lying
Two
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