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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.

Paul Theroux

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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Boston Childhood Maine
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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Earth Secret Thinking
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
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
Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
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Chance Fiction Giving Second
Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
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Bad Decision Men
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 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
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
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
You can’t want to be a writer. You have to be one.
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Need Patience Writer
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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Home People Thinking
One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.
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Buddhism Neglect Principles
Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.
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Mine Travel Trip
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

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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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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