"A French traveler with a sore throat is……" — Paul Theroux
"A French traveler with a sore throat is a wonderful thing to behold, but it takes more than tonsillitis to prevent a Frenchman from boasting."
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148 Quotes by Paul Theroux
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It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his…
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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 -…
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The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind…
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Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and…
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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…
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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…
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The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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If delight may provoke men's labour, what greater delights is there then to behold the earth as apparelled with plants,…
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When we see a beautiful object, a beautiful garden, or a beautiful flower, let us think that there we behold…
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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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