I have never felt any real attachment to home and I fail to produce the normal emotive response whenever the word is mentioned — except when traveling….
—the novelist and travel writer Bruce Chatwin, who died on this day in 1989
January 18, 2011
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January 17, 2011
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Any idiot can face a crisis — it’s the day-to-day living that wears you out.
—Anton Chekhov, born on this day in 1860
