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Life Quotes by Paul Theroux
- The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience - shocking though it may seem…
- A person who is tired of London is not necessarily tired of life; it might be that he just can’t find a parking place.
- A foreign swear-word is practically inoffensive except to the person who has learnt it early in life and knows its social limits.
- 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…
- Everyone had an opinion and no one had a solution.
- Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life
- Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death.
- Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
- 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…
- 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…
- Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits…
- The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work, travel is perfect:…
- 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…
- 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…
- Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent.
- The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it with…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us.
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle