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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.

Paul Theroux

I think that love isn’t what you think it is when you’re in your twenties or even thirties.
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Emotion Love Thinking Twenties
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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Book Pages Reading
…a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.
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Artist Country might People Society
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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Book Order People
It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is over certain of his plot.
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Boredom Hero Novelists
I don’t look down on tourism. I live in Hawaii where we have 7 million visitors a year. If they weren’t there, there would be no economy. So I understand why a tourist economy is necessary.
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Hawaii Look Years
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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Home Memories Perfect
Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control.
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Animal Loner Lover
Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.
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Mine Travel Trip
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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Help Helping Mutual Weakness
My greatest inspiration is memory.
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Country Inspiration Memories People
Writing … is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.
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Competitive Persons Writing
One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.
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Buddhism Neglect Principles
I don’t think that it’s possible to have a truly rewarding experience in travel if it’s simple.
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Experiences Reward Simple Thinking
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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Career Country White
You can’t want to be a writer. You have to be one.
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Need Patience Writer

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