Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination … - Anatole Broyard

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I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world - to pronounce it -- and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.

Anatole Broyard

Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live. There is in men, as Peter Quennell said, "a centrifugal tendency. " In our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.

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