Small clay figures in varied colours stand in front of an open brown suitcase on warm peach ground.

Original artwork, not a still

One Hand Clapping · 1961

Anthony Burgess

I suppose the only real reason for traveling is to learn that all people are the same.

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The statement presents travel as a way to recognize sameness among people, rather than merely encounter difference. Its tentative opening leads to a sweeping claim about purpose. Read as a reflection on shared humanity, it gives familiarity a value usually associated with discovering the unfamiliar.

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