Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
PAUL THEROUXAnimal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control.
More Paul Theroux Quotes
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It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.
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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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My greatest inspiration is memory.
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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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…a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.
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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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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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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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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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If you’re a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don’t like other people. I’m not like that, I don’t think.
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Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.
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Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.
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One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.
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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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