Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It’s also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
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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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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My greatest inspiration is memory.
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I don’t think that it’s possible to have a truly rewarding experience in travel if it’s simple.
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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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The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.
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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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Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
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Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
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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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Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.
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You can’t want to be a writer. You have to be one.
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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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It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.
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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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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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