It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.
PAUL THEROUXI always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I’d touched bottom.
More Paul Theroux Quotes
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Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
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Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
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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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Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
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My greatest inspiration is memory.
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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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One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.
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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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You can’t want to be a writer. You have to be one.
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…a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.
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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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Writing … is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.
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Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.
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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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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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