I think that love isn’t what you think it is when you’re in your twenties or even thirties.
PAUL THEROUXOne of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.
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My greatest inspiration is memory.
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I don’t think that it’s possible to have a truly rewarding experience in travel if it’s simple.
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Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, memorizing a scene, grateful for being alive to see it.
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…a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.
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It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.
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Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn’t say that I’m a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels – and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.
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I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I’d touched bottom.
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Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It’s also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
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One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.
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You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.
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The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.
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It might be said that a great unstated reason for travel is to find places that exemplify where one has been happiest. Looking for idealised versions of home-indeed, looking for the perfect memory.
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Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
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Sometimes people read a book in order to not go on a trip. You read a book instead of going on the trip. And so the travel writer is doing the traveling for you.
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Writing … is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.
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