Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control.
PAUL THEROUXMy greatest inspiration is memory.
More Paul Theroux Quotes
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My greatest inspiration is memory.
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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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Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
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Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
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I don’t think that it’s possible to have a truly rewarding experience in travel if it’s simple.
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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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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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I think that love isn’t what you think it is when you’re in your twenties or even thirties.
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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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I don’t look down on tourism. I live in Hawaii where we have 7 million visitors a year. If they weren’t there, there would be no economy. So I understand why a tourist economy is necessary.
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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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Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, memorizing a scene, grateful for being alive to see it.
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The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.
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Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.
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Writing … is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.
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