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Think Quotes by Paul Theroux
- 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…
- When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that any great thing…
- I think I understand passion. Love is something else.
- 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…
- I don't think I've ever seen a person having a serious conversation on a cellphone. It's like a kiddie thing, a complete time waster.
- I think that love isn't what you think it is when you're in your twenties or even thirties.
- I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read.
- I think most serious and omnivorous readers are alike- intense in their dedication to the word, quiet-minded, but relieved and eagerly talkative when they meet…
- The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it with…
- 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,…
- I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction.
- I think I am typical in believing that the Peace Corps trained us brilliantly and then did little more except send us into the bush.…
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