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One 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…
- The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security, but especially no…
- In a way, Che Guevara's fate was far worse than Simon Bolivar's. Guevara's collapse was complete: his intentions were forgotten, but his style was taken…
- One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.
- Truly, the worst trains take one across the best landscapes.
- One thing about cold weather: it brings out the statistician in everyone.
- Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one writer-a mediocre poet.
- ... Oceanic malaise. I never saw anyone reading anything more demanding than a comic book. I never heard any youth express an interest in science…
- Everyone had an opinion and no one had a solution.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction.
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
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