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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.

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
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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Book Pages Reading
Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
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Bad Decision Men
One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.
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Buddhism Neglect Principles
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
Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.
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Mine Travel Trip
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
Writing … is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.
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Competitive Persons Writing
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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Alive Grateful Squinting
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
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Feeling Mind Travel
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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Book Novelist Travel
My greatest inspiration is memory.
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Country Inspiration Memories People
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
It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.
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Magical Place Travel Worst
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
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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Home People Thinking

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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