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It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.

Paul Theroux

It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.
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Magical Place Travel Worst
Writing … is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.
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Competitive Persons Writing
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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Alive Grateful Squinting
…a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.
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Artist Country might People Society
My greatest inspiration is memory.
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Country Inspiration Memories People
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
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
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
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
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
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
One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.
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Buddhism Neglect Principles
Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.
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Mine Travel Trip
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

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