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One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.

Paul Theroux

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
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
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
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
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Feeling Mind Travel
It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.
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Magical Place Travel Worst
…a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.
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Artist Country might People Society
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
The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.
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Book Slim Volume
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
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
Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
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Chance Fiction Giving Second
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
My greatest inspiration is memory.
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Country Inspiration Memories People
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
Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.
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Mine Travel Trip

One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.

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