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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.

Paul Theroux

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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Animal Loner Lover
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
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
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
Writing … is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.
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Competitive Persons Writing
You can’t want to be a writer. You have to be one.
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Need Patience Writer
Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
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Bad Decision Men
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
The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.
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Book Slim Volume
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
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Feeling Mind Travel
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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Career Country White
My greatest inspiration is memory.
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Country Inspiration Memories People
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
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
Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
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Chance Fiction Giving Second
I don’t think that it’s possible to have a truly rewarding experience in travel if it’s simple.
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Experiences Reward Simple Thinking

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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