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The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction- formations.

Paul Goodman

Paul Goodman (1911–1972), U.S. author, poet, critic. "Summer 1957, in Europe," sct. 3, Five Years (1966).

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