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.
PAUL THEROUXOne of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.
More Paul Theroux Quotes
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Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
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It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.
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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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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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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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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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Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.
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My greatest inspiration is memory.
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I think that love isn’t what you think it is when you’re in your twenties or even thirties.
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I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I’d touched bottom.
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Writing … is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.
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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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Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
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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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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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