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Something Quotes by Paul Theroux
- Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens that transforms the whole nature of the trip and stays with the traveler.
- I think I understand passion. Love is something else.
- I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With…
- A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and…
- 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 two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people, an exotic place.…
- 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 wanted the Peace Corps to be something very vague and unorganized, and to a large extent it was. It did not run smoothly. The…
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- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail. — Giorgio Armani
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. — J. J. Abrams
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen