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The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.

Paul Theroux

Writing … is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.
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Competitive Persons Writing
Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
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Bad Decision Men
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
Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.
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Mine Travel Trip
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
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
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
It might be said that a great unstated reason for travel is to find places that exemplify where one has been happiest. Looking for idealised versions of home-indeed, looking for the perfect memory.
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Home Memories Perfect
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
…a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.
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Artist Country might People Society
It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.
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Magical Place Travel Worst
One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.
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Buddhism Neglect Principles
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
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Feeling Mind Travel
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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Help Helping Mutual Weakness
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
Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
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Chance Fiction Giving Second

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