Gustave Flaubert – Travel Quote of the Week

This week’s travel quote comes from Gustave Flaubert, a nineteenth-century French writer and thinker. His novels are famous for their gritty realism and sensual themes. Flaubert was born in the french city of Rouen in 1821. He began writing at…

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Louis L’Amour – Travel Quote of the Week

This week’s travel quote comes from Louis L’Amour, an American novelist and short story writer. He is best known for his novels about the American West, but he also wrote science fiction and poetry.   He was born in small-town…

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John Steinbeck – Travel Quote of the Week

This week’s travel quote comes from John Steinbeck, an American writer and Nobel Prize winner. Among his most famous works are East of Eden, Of Mice and Men, and The Grapes of Wrath.  Steinbeck was born in California in 1902.…

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Mark Twain – Travel Quote of the Week

  This week’s travel quote comes from Mark Twain, the noted nineteenth-century American writer and humorist. He is best known for his novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which is often described as “The Great American Novel”.    Twain was born Samuel Clemens in…

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Rudyard Kipling – Travel Quote of the Week

This week’s travel quote is attributed to Rudyard Kipling*, a nineteenth-century British journalist, poet, and novelist. He is perhaps best known for his 1894 novel The Jungle Book, which was later turned into a much-beloved cartoon by Disney. Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in…

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