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June 12, 2012 02:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time 

Skyscanner: Top 10 Best Travel Quotes Ever

EDINBURGH, Scotland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Skyscanner complies 10 of the best quotes about travel, travelling, holidays and foreign lands to inspire you to see the world.

1. Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of colour without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream's shadow.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

2. Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

- Ernest Hemingway

3. The ideal is to feel at home anywhere, everywhere

- Geoff Dyer, Paris Trance

4. I needed no better reason for the journey than to be exactly where I was, knowing what I knew. Those were the times when I felt full of natural wisdom, scratching at heaven's very door.

- Ted Simon, Jupiter’s Travels

5. Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that.

- Andre Benjamin

6. What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

- Jack Kerouac, On the Road

7. A journey is like a marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

-John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

8. To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

- Aldous Huxley

9. We could bore ourselves to death, drink ourselves to death, or have a bit of an adventure.

- Terry Darlington, Narrow Dog to Carcassonne

10. Jet lag is for amateurs.

- Dick Clark

Read the full list of 25 best travel quotes at http://www.skyscanner.net/news/articles/2012/06/012803-on-the-road-25-top-travel-quotes.html

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