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I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I’d touched bottom.

Paul Theroux

I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I’d touched bottom.
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Company Found Reminder
Writing … is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.
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Competitive Persons Writing
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
The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.
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Book Slim Volume
Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
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Chance Fiction Giving Second
…a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.
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Artist Country might People Society
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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Book Novelist Travel
Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.
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Mine Travel Trip
It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.
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Magical Place Travel Worst
My greatest inspiration is memory.
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Country Inspiration Memories People
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
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Feeling Mind Travel
You can’t want to be a writer. You have to be one.
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Need Patience Writer
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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Alive Grateful Squinting
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
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
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

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