“Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming and crushing banality and boredom and desperation and depression, and every deed, good and bad, is an attempt to forget this. Every native would like to find a way out, every native would like a rest, and every native would like a tour. But some natives — most natives in the world — cannot go anywhere.”
― Jamaica Kincaid, The Ugly Tourist
“Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand – that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.”
― Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
“A clearer picture of the scene aboard the ship began to emerge as passengers who have been mostly out of cellphone reach described overflowing toilets, sewage backed up in showers, scarce food and people getting sick.”
― Jay Reeves and Ramit Plushnick-Masti for the AP, regarding the troubles aboard the cruise ship named Triumph
“In 2006, the accounting firm Ernst & Young did an internal study of its employees and found that for each additional 10 hours of vacation employees took, their year-end performance ratings from supervisors (on a scale of one to five) improved by 8 percent.”
― Tony Schwartz, “Relax! You’ll Be More Productive” in The New York Times
