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Paul Theroux

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
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
The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.
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Book Slim Volume
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
One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.
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Buddhism Neglect Principles
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
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 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
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
Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.
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Mine Travel Trip
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
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
Writing … is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.
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Competitive Persons Writing
…a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.
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Artist Country might People Society

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