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Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.

Paul Theroux

I don’t think that it’s possible to have a truly rewarding experience in travel if it’s simple.
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Experiences Reward Simple Thinking
One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.
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Buddhism Neglect Principles
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
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
Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
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Chance Fiction Giving Second
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
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
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
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
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
…a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.
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Artist Country might People Society
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
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Feeling Mind Travel
You can’t want to be a writer. You have to be one.
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Need Patience Writer
Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
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Bad Decision Men
It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.
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Magical Place Travel Worst
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

Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.

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