Best Paul Theroux Quotes
- The long morning shadows lay as still and dark as lakes and patterned the rough ground with straight margins. Dark
- The Colombians are good-tempered people. They are used to waiting for buses that are late, used to riding buses and trains that do not arrive. Arrive
- The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing. Arrival
- Railways are irresistible bazaars, snaking along perfectly level no matter what the landscape, improving your mood with speed, and never upsetting your drink. Along
- Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion. Act
- Truly, the worst trains take one across the best landscapes. Across
- A foreign swear-word is practically inoffensive except to the person who has learnt it early in life and knows its social limits. Early
- One thing about cold weather: it brings out the statistician in everyone. Brings
- Writing ... is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive. Activity
- Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one writer-a mediocre poet. Country
- 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… Black
- 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. Certain
- Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions. Bad
- The more you write, the more you're capable of writing. Capable
- The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given. Equal
- When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home. Began
- The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I… Born
- When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't… Africa
- When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary… Approval
- When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that any great thing… Any
- ... Oceanic malaise. I never saw anyone reading anything more demanding than a comic book. I never heard any youth express an interest in science… All
- Everyone had an opinion and no one had a solution. Everyone
- Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life Becomes
- Banks and donors and charities claimed to have had successes in Mozambique. I suspected they invented these successes to justify their existence. Banks
- Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death. Death
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