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In the long term, there are many factors that will help the luxury market, the creation of new wealth and the Asian tourist boom

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

Luxury, Long, Asian

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Autumn is full of leave-taking. In September the swallows are chattering of destination and departure like a crowd of tourists.

Mary Webb

Autumn, Departure, Crowds

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I'm like a tourist when I'm in London.

Erin O'Connor

London

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Of all noxious animals, the most noxious is a tourist. And of all tourists the most vulgar, ill-bred, offensive and loathsome is the British tourist.

Francis Kilvert

Animal, Offensive, British

W. Plomer (ed.) 'Selections from the Diary of the Rev. Francis Kilvert' (1938-40) 5 April 1870

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Tourism as a number-one industry is a terrible, terrible idea for any city, especially New York. If you were going to turn a city, which is a place where people live, into a tourist attraction, you're going to have to make it a place that people who don't live here, like. So I object to living in a place for people who don't live here.

Fran Lebowitz

New York, Cities, Ideas

"Fran Lebowitz to Tourists: 'Stay Home'" by David Hershkovits, www.papermag.com. September 17, 2014.

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It's time now to rent a car, roll down the windows and prepare for your first big thrill: the freeways. They're so much fun they should charge admission. Never fret about zigzagging back and forth through six lanes of traffic at high speeds; it erases jet lag in a split second. You're now heading toward Hollywood, like any normal tourist. Breathe in that smog and feel lucky that only in L.A. will you glimpse a green sun or a brown moon. Forget the propaganda you've heard about clean air; demand oxygen you can see in all its glorious discoloration.

John Waters

Fun, Moon, Air

John Waters (1986). “Crackpot, the Obsessions of John Waters”, Vintage

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I'm already waiting when Puck gets to the top of the cliffs. I'm not the only one; about two dozen race tourists have made perches out of rocks, watching Corr and me as closely as they dare. Puck glares at them all, searing enough that some of them flinch in surprise. I'm not certain what to expect from her after last night. I don't know how to address her. I don't know what she expects from me or what I expect from me. What I get is a wordless hello and a November cake in my hand.

Maggie Stiefvater

Night, Two, Race

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If you sort of see yourself writing into a space that you don't always recognize, you sometimes learn things that you knew, but weren't entirely aware of. It's very liberating for a writer to go into a space where she or he has not gone before, because, instead of being a tourist, you're like an explorer now, and you're sort of lost in this new idea.

Colum McCann

Writing, Ideas, Space

Source: www.pbs.org

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It is charming the way everyone in the South says, 'Come back.' This is the regulation farewell at gas stations, soda fountains, general stores, tourist camps. 'Come back,' they call, 'come back.' Do they feel marooned in one place, lost, needing to believe someone will return to share their exile on the similar main streets, in the varied but always new-looking land?

Martha Gellhorn

Believe, Farewell, Land

Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The View from the Ground”, p.85, Atlantic Monthly Press

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As long as there are Japanese tourists, there will be a market for the Old South.

John Shelton Reed

Long, South

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Space tourism is a logical outgrowth of the adventure tourist market.

Buzz Aldrin

Adventure, Space, Tourism

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A tourist is an ugly human being.

Jamaica Kincaid

Ugly, Humans, Human Beings

1988 A Small Place.

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Those who believe for a while make only a brief tour in the kingdom, though thereafter they often feel qualified to inform those who know even less about the Church; but the fact is they were really only tourists - not natives who really knew the kingdom's countryside.

Neal A. Maxwell

Believe, Church, Kingdoms

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The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American

Bernice Johnson Reagon

America, Effort, Mind

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Mathematical study and research are very suggestive of mountaineering. Whymper made several efforts before he climbed the Matterhorn in the 1860's and even then it cost the life of four of his party. Now, however, any tourist can be hauled up for a small cost, and perhaps does not appreciate the difficulty of the original ascent. So in mathematics, it may be found hard to realise the great initial difficulty of making a little step which now seems so natural and obvious, and it may not be surprising if such a step has been found and lost again.

Louis J. Mordell

Party, Science, Appreciate

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My dogs have never been good at things like "sit," "stay," or even "come." I think that we've given the tourists a few laughs, especially when the dogs hit the end of their leashes hard enough to drag Gloria down the street.

James Stewart

Dog, Thinking, Laughing

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A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.

Emile Genest

Travel, Car, Miles

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They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.

Mike Schmidt

Sports, Roots, Giving

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Don't be a tourist. Plan less. Go slowly. I traveled in the most inefficient way possible and it took me exactly where I wanted to go.

Andrew Evans

Travel, Way, Plans

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People who are pro smacking children say, 'It's the only language they understand.' You could apply that to tourists.

Jack Dee

Funny, Children, People

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Costa Rica, with its tourist-based economy and lack of a national army, has focused on keeping safe its beaches, parks and other public draws. It is one if the safest countries in Central America based on the number of homicides.

Laura Chinchilla

Country, Beach, Army

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Marseilles isn't a city for tourists. There's nothing to see. Its beauty can't be photographed. It can only be shared. It's a place where you have to take sides, be passionately for or against. Only then can you see what there is to see. And you realize, too late, that you're in the middle of a tragedy. An ancient tragedy in which the hero is death. In Marseilles, even to lose you have to know how to fight.

Jean-Claude Izzo

Hero, Fighting, Cities

Jean-Claude Izzo (2016). “Total Chaos”, p.28, Penguin

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A traveler enters the world into which he travels, but a tourist brings his own world with him and never sees the one he's in.

Thomas H. Cook

World, Traveler

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But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists—seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt.
Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.

Simon Van Booy

Imperfection, Shadow, Trying

Simon Van Booy (2014). “Everything Beautiful Began After”, p.11, Oneworld Publications

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But nothing will persuade me that the mere fact of being in a place is enough in itself to justify the effort of getting out of bed to become a tourist, or even a traveller. I don't have the slightest wish to be intrepid. I don't want to prove myself to myself or anyone else. I don't care if no one thinks me brave or hardy. I have no concern at all that I did not have whatever it is I should have had to take a dive out of a plane or off a building. None of that matters to me in the least.

Jenny Diski

Thinking, Should Have, Effort

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