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Paul Theroux

Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
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Bad Decision Men
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
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
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
It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.
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Magical Place Travel Worst
The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.
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Book Slim Volume
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
Sometimes people read a book in order to not go on a trip. You read a book instead of going on the trip. And so the travel writer is doing the traveling for you.
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Book Order People
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
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Feeling Mind Travel
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
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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Boston Childhood Maine
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
One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.
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Buddhism Neglect Principles
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
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
My greatest inspiration is memory.
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Country Inspiration Memories People

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