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.
PAUL THEROUXYou think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.
More Paul Theroux Quotes
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Writing … is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.
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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.
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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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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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Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
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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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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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I don’t think that it’s possible to have a truly rewarding experience in travel if it’s simple.
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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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Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
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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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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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It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.
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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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