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.
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 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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I don’t think that it’s possible to have a truly rewarding experience in travel if it’s simple.
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…a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.
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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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Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
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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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You can’t want to be a writer. You have to be one.
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One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.
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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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My greatest inspiration is 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 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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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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It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical 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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