Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control.
PAUL THEROUXThe 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.
More Paul Theroux Quotes
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Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
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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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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 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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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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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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Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
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Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.
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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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You can’t want to be a writer. You have to be one.
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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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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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The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.
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…a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.
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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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