"Delay and dirt are the realities of the……" — Paul Theroux

Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel. - Paul Theroux

"Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel."

— Paul Theroux

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148 Quotes by Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux has 148 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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

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More Delay Quotes

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. — Simone de Beauvoir
All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay. — James Buchan
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. — Miguel de Cervantes
The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight. — Natalie Clifford Barney
If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann… — Jean Rostand
Delay not to seize the hour! — Aeschylus
By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them. — Roger L'Estrange
In delay there lies no plenty. — William Shakespeare
Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded. — Sandra Day O'Connor
Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary. — William Shakespeare
It is said that one should not hesitate to correct himself when he has made a mistake. If he corrects… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us… — A. J. Jacobs

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