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From Quotes by Paul Theroux
- The conversation, like many others I had with people on trains, derived an easy candour from the shared journey, the comfort of the dining car,…
- Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.
- A French traveler with a sore throat is a wonderful thing to behold, but it takes more than tonsillitis to prevent a Frenchman from boasting.
- 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…
- Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life
- The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
- I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great…
- Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was not a factor…
- The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it with…
- The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people, an exotic place.…
- 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…
- A gun show is about like-minded people who feel as if everything has been taken away from them - jobs, money, pride.
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