Best Paul Theroux Sayings
- Writers are painful friends, and they are seldom friendly with others. They are insecure in the presence of other writers. Composers of certain kinds of… Art
- Painters strike me as having warm uncomplicated friendships and probably more natural generosity than the practitioners of any other art. Perhaps this is because painting… Any
- Painters paint outdoors, or in rooms full of people; they paint their lovers, alone, naked; they paint and eat; they paint and listen to the… Alone
- Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation. Exploitation
- Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing. Asked
- You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by… Airplane
- Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us. Chance
- Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. Adventure
- I am happy being what I am. Funny
- I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely. Connected
- Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace. Grace
- I think I understand passion. Love is something else. Love
- I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better. Better
- Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. Funny
- Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may… All
- The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume. Australian
- The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness. From
- A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form. Any
- Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation. Conversation
- Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind. Broadening
- It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources. Alone
- The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do. Allowed
- There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't… African
- I don't think I've ever seen a person having a serious conversation on a cellphone. It's like a kiddie thing, a complete time waster. Cellphone
- I think that love isn't what you think it is when you're in your twenties or even thirties. Inspirational
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