by CNNGo staff
Sometimes, the greatest travel books are the inadvertent kind, such as “The Mind’s Eye,” Henri Cartier-Bresson’s musings on his life as a photographer. Or “A Moveable Feast,” Ernest Hemingway’s account of his life in Paris.
The latter is particularly notable for its hilariously disgruntled account of a road trip to Lyon with a whiny, drunk and delinquent F. Scott Fitzgerald. (The literary giant's conclusion? “I learned one thing. Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.”)
Fiction or nonfiction, road trips with tortured, brilliant writers make for great quotes about strangers in strange places.
Here are some of the ones that stick with us.
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