"Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene……" — Paul Theroux
"Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent."
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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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'Drive' came to me because the casting director knew my manager and called and said, 'You've always talked to me…
— Albert Brooks
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There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting…
— Bill Bryson
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A healthy body means a healthy mind. You get your heart rate up, and you get the blood flowing through…
— Steve Carell
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[Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant…
— N. T. Wright
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Albert Einstein, who discovered that a tiny amount of mass is equal to a huge amount of energy, which explains…
— Dave Barry
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The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason…
— Stephen Hawking
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e idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive. However, I am also not…
— Albert Einstein
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I met my darling wife Wilnelia in 1980 when we were on the judging panel for the Miss World contest…
— Bruce Forsyth
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No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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When asked what single event was most helpful in developing the Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein replied, "Figuring out how…
— W. Edwards Deming
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In "The Myth of Sisyphus", his most important non-fiction work, Albert Camus suggested that if we believed what most people…
— Unknown Author
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As I look back over the truly crucial events in my life I realize that they were not planned long…
— Albert Einstein
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