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tourist
«The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
| Keywords:
familiarity, fills, offers, pseudo, risking, strangeness, The Thrills, tourist, two weeks, weeks
«The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.»
Author: Nadine Gordimer
| Keywords:
abstraction, Another Country, Beautiful Country, bottles, coca, Coca Cola, cola, desirable, does not exist, embarrassing, grubby, pamphlet, pamphlets, smells, tourist
«The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
camera, eventually, on camera, tourist
«I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.»
«The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Travel
| Keywords:
sees, The Traveler, tourist, traveler