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My greatest inspiration is memory.

Paul Theroux

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
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
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
Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.
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Mine Travel Trip
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
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
The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.
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Book Slim Volume
Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
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Bad Decision Men
You can’t want to be a writer. You have to be one.
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Need Patience Writer
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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Hawaii Look Years
Writing … is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.
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Competitive Persons Writing
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
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
My greatest inspiration is memory.
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Country Inspiration Memories People

My greatest inspiration is memory.

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