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People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence, and they think they have seen something.

Soren Kierkegaard

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Topic

Travel Tourism

Author

Soren Kierkegaard

Source

Fear and Trembling

Genre

Religious literature Philosophical literature

Language

Danish

Time

1843 1840s 19th century

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Original Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren [published as Johannes de silentio]. Frygt og Bæven [Fear and Trembling]. Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, 1843.

Current Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren. Fear and Trembling, translated by Alastair Hannay. Penguin Classics, 1986.

Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.

Lord Chesterfield

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Topic

Tourism Fools Travel

Author

Lord Chesterfield

Source

Letters of Lord Chesterfield

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1747 1740s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Citation

Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Letter to his son. 30 Oct. 1747.

What an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home, and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile attempt to recapture the comforts that you wouldn't have lost if you hadn't left home in the first place.

Bill Bryson

Neither Here Nor There

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Topic

Tourism Travel

Author

Bill Bryson

Source

Neither Here Nor There

Genre

Travel writing

Statement Type

Irony

Language

English

Time

1991 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Bryson, Bill. Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe. Secker & Warbug, 1991.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes “sightseeing.”

Daniel Boorstin

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Topic

Travel Tourism

Author

Daniel Boorstin

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Boorstin, Daniel. The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America. Harper Colophon Books, 1961.

It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.

Aldous Huxley

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Topic

Tourism Travel

Author

Aldous Huxley

Source

Along the Road: Notes and Essays of a Tourist

Medium

Essay

Genre

Travel writing

Language

English

Time

1925 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Huxley, Aldous. Along the Road: Notes and Essays of a Tourist. Chatto & Windus/George H. Doran, 1925.