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"What are you going to do, then?" I asked. "To smoke," he [Holmes] answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes."
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Alberto del Hierro, Salou’s Councillor for Tourism, said: ‘It is not normal to go the market with your packet on show or round the tourist sites in a thong.
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It seems remedial now, and it is, but it’s something Dickens seemed to realize long ago: Travel is not that interesting. People are. Stories come alive only when there are people in them. Travel and nature writing both purport to be about physical things. But they are really about us, and to the extent that they aren’t, they are simply bad, or boring, writing.
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There is no perfection, only varying tastes in corruption.
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