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.
PAUL THEROUXThe Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.
More Paul Theroux Quotes
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…a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.
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Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
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Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.
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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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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 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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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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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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One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.
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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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I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I’d touched bottom.
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My greatest inspiration is memory.
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Writing … is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.
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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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