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…a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.

Paul Theroux

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
Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
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Bad Decision Men
…a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.
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Artist Country might People Society
Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
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Chance Fiction Giving Second
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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Home Memories Perfect
It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.
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Magical Place Travel Worst
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
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Feeling Mind Travel
My greatest inspiration is memory.
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Country Inspiration Memories People
One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.
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Buddhism Neglect Principles
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
Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.
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Mine Travel Trip
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
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
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
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
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

…a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.

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