Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control.
PAUL THEROUXI think that love isn’t what you think it is when you’re in your twenties or even thirties.
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Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
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I think that love isn’t what you think it is when you’re in your twenties or even thirties.
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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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Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
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One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.
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…a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.
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You can’t want to be a writer. You have to be one.
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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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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 don’t think that it’s possible to have a truly rewarding experience in travel if it’s simple.
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My greatest inspiration is memory.
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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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One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.
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The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate’s career. He can either forget it, or capitalize on it. Most choose the latter.
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Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
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