Best Paul Theroux Words
- You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back. All
- I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I'd touched bottom. Always Found
- All travel is circular. I had been jerked through Asia, making a parabola on one of the planet's hemispheres. After all, the grand tour is… All
- ...a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists. Artist
- Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I… Boston
- I think most serious and omnivorous readers are alike- intense in their dedication to the word, quiet-minded, but relieved and eagerly talkative when they meet… Alike
- Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? “She drove me to my practice at four in the morning,”… Advice
- Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on… Alteration
- The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances… Change
- He regarded himself as an accomplished writer — a clear sign of madness in anyone. Accomplished
- The measure of civilized behavior is compassion. Behavior
- Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and… Depending
- ... the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home. Grand
- It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places. Axiomatic
- I loathe blogs when I look at them. Blogs look, to me, illiterate. They look hasty, like someone babbling. Babbling
- Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent. Albert
- The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze River, that equals… Among
- You leave the States, and you see people have bigger problems than you, much worse problems than you. Bigger
- The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it with… Cover
- I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall… Children
- A journey awakens all our old fears of danger and risk. Your life is on the line. You are living by your own resources; you… All
- The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of… Almost Like
- I think people read travel books either because they intend to take that trip, or because they would never take that trip. In a sense,… Books
- The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people, an exotic place.… Discovering
- I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble. Books
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