One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.
PAUL THEROUXI don’t think that it’s possible to have a truly rewarding experience in travel if it’s simple.
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Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
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Writing … is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.
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Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
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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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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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I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I’d touched bottom.
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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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…a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.
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Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
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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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Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.
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The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.
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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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You can’t want to be a writer. You have to be one.
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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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