"Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and……" — Paul Theroux
"Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind."
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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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Size and synergies between the different segments of the company matter. As far as we are concerned, the Internet is…
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But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a…
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The continuing, direct operation of the Holy Ghost on those who are called to be God's children implies, in fact,…
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The Chinese side stands ready to work with Morocco to consolidate and deepen mutually beneficial cooperation and continuously push forward…
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Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth with which they…
— Yo-Yo Ma
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Education, you know, means broadening, advancing; and if you limit a teacher to only one side of anything, the whole…
— John T. Scopes
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It's broadening. You meet people in your family you'd never happen to run into otherwise.
— Deborah Eisenberg
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— Oswald Chambers
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The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of…
— Rene Cassin
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Television remote controls encourage couch potatoes to exercise their options while broadening their base.
— William Arthur Ward
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The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the…
— James A. Baldwin
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What's new?" is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless…
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