Best Paul Theroux Lines
- You need to be on your own so that you can meet people as you are, and as they are. Meet
- Writing was in my mind from the time I was in high school, but more, the idea that I would be a doctor. I really… Doctor
- My earliest thought, long before I was in high school, was just to go away, get out of my house, get out of my city.… Away Get
- I do not want to be young again. Young
- Maine is a joy in the summer. But the soul of Maine is more apparent in the winter. Apparent
- Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. Crackling
- Many small towns I know in Maine are as tight-knit and interdependent as those I associate with rural communities in India or China; with deep… Associate
- Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust… Book
- Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me. Books
- I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction. Alone
- A gun show is about like-minded people who feel as if everything has been taken away from them - jobs, money, pride. Been
- I should start by saying that traveling in the States is a bit like traveling in Asia. You need it, it helps to have an… Asia
- Everything is fiction. You only have your own life to work with in the way that a biographer only has the letters and journals to… Biographer
- I have spent my life on the road waking in a pleasant, or not so pleasant hotel, and setting off every morning after breakfast hoping… Breakfast
- An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed. Been
- My record was so bad that I was first rejected by the Peace Corps as a poor risk and possible troublemaker and was accepted as… Accepted
- I wanted the Peace Corps to be something very vague and unorganized, and to a large extent it was. It did not run smoothly. The… Alone
- I think I am typical in believing that the Peace Corps trained us brilliantly and then did little more except send us into the bush.… Bad
- I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give it life with your imagination,… Always Felt
- I believe I have a sunny disposition, and am not naturally a grouch. It takes a lot of optimism, after all, to be a traveler. All
- The job of the travel writer is to go far and wide, to make voluminous notes, to tell the truth. Far
- Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us. Chances
- As Calcutta smells of death and Bombay of Money, Bangkok smells of sex, but this sexual aroma is mingled with the sharper whiffs of sex… Aroma
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