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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
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
Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
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Chance Fiction Giving Second
Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.
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Mine Travel Trip
The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.
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Book Slim Volume
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
Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
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Bad Decision Men
Writing … is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.
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Competitive Persons Writing
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
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
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Feeling Mind Travel
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
My greatest inspiration is memory.
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Country Inspiration Memories People
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
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
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
…a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.
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Artist Country might People Society

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