Below you will find a set of quotations randomly selected from the GMI database. Each set is based around a common theme, as in GAMSAT. To practise for Section 2, give yourself five minutes thinking time and then allow 30 minutes writing time for an essay based on the quotations. For some feedback, you may wish to consider posting your completed essay in the PagingDr Essay Practice and Critique thread. To get another set, simply reload the page. If you would like to suggest a quotation for the database, submit a comment below.
1: Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.
Paul Theroux (1941 – ), The Washington Post2: A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
George Moore3: Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
Miriam Beard4: Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.
George Santayana (1863 – 1952)5: Two roads diverged in a wood, and Iâ I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost (1874 – 1963), The Road Not Taken
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