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Paul Theroux has 149 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as…
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Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.
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The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience - shocking though…
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The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security,…
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Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel…
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They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.
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The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.
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In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.
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Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.
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The conversation, like many others I had with people on trains, derived an easy candour from the shared journey, the comfort of…
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My greatest inspiration is memory.
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Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.
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