. . . the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home. - Paul Theroux

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Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.

Paul Theroux

. . . the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

Grand, Home, Inspired, Men, Tour, Travel

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The long morning shadows lay as still and dark as lakes and patterned the rough ground with straight margins.

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All places, no matter where, no matter what, are worth visiting.

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Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening.

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Basically, what you find out is the limits of your patience and your strength and your capacity to adapt. You find that out in travel and being alone and being tested. So that's a great thing.

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Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

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I am essential to the theater.

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