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Place Quotes by Paul Theroux
- Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it.
- The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of…
- The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people, an exotic place.…
- An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.
More Place Quotes
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- Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. — Lance Armstrong
- It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced… — Neil Armstrong
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think… — David Attenborough
- All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters… — Margaret Atwood
- That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves,… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim… — Wystan Hugh Auden