"Travel spoils you for regular life."

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Source : Bill Barich (2015). “Traveling Light: A Year of Wandering, from California to England and Tuscany and Back Again”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Bill Barich

“We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.”
“Recently somebody said, "Hey, you lost weight," and I said, "Yeah, thirty-five pounds and three and a half billion dollars." So I'm quite a bit lighter and more flexible than I was.”
“They say either get right or get left, how about I just go forward and never look back.”
“All the world's indeed a stage And we are merely players Performers and portrayers Each another's audience outside the gilded cage”
“The West can teach the East how to get a living, but the East must eventually be asked to show the West how to live.”
“I look at everything in an artistic way.”
“You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.”
“To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!”

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