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People Quotes by Paul Theroux
- In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.
- 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,…
- The Colombians are good-tempered people. They are used to waiting for buses that are late, used to riding buses and trains that do not arrive.
- If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.
- When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't…
- Painters paint outdoors, or in rooms full of people; they paint their lovers, alone, naked; they paint and eat; they paint and listen to the…
- The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.
- I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read.
- People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.
- People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books.
- Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate…
- People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write…
- Connection" is the triumphal cry these days. Connection has made people arrogant, impatient, hasty, and presumptuous. ...I don't doubt that instant communication has been good…
- 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:…
- 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…
- 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…
- You leave the States, and you see people have bigger problems than you, much worse problems than you.
- 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,…
- The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people, an exotic place.…
- You need to be on your own so that you can meet people as you are, and as they are.
- A gun show is about like-minded people who feel as if everything has been taken away from them - jobs, money, pride.
More People Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — 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
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle