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Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.

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Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals.

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I believe I have a sunny disposition, and am not naturally a grouch. It takes a lot of optimism, after all, to be a traveler.

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The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

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Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us.

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Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

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Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.

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The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.

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There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment.

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Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: April 10th, 1941

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