Comparing myself in quotes that resonate now and used to resonate then.
Now:
"Somebody asked Picasso why he never traveled abroad. And he said, I travel in my head. I do think there are those choices and perhaps you don't feel them so much when you're young - and probably you shouldn't - but later on, if you want to go beyond something that is simply good or promising to real fulfillment and risk-taking of a big body of work, you have to stay home."
-- Susan Sontag in an interview with Jonathan Cott, from Aug 2013 Harper's Magazine. Interview will be published in October by Yale University Press
Then:
"I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
"We are homesick most for the places we have never known"
-- Carson McCullers
Now:
"Somebody asked Picasso why he never traveled abroad. And he said, I travel in my head. I do think there are those choices and perhaps you don't feel them so much when you're young - and probably you shouldn't - but later on, if you want to go beyond something that is simply good or promising to real fulfillment and risk-taking of a big body of work, you have to stay home."
-- Susan Sontag in an interview with Jonathan Cott, from Aug 2013 Harper's Magazine. Interview will be published in October by Yale University Press
Then:
"I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
"We are homesick most for the places we have never known"
-- Carson McCullers
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