"I always found myself in the company of……" — Paul Theroux
"I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I'd touched bottom."
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148 Quotes by Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux has 148 quotes on this site.
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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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It's a character that I always found really likable. I'm fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who…
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The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty…
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always…
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Classical music and pop are two different universes, each with its own difficulties, peculiarities, depth and artistic dignity. In Italy,…
— Andrea Bocelli
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There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's always found a home in…
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Forensics I've always found absolutely fascinating. Anything to do with clues. And checking things out and solving.
— Sandra Bullock
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We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
— Winston Churchill
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In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I…
— Winston Churchill
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I have always found small mammals enough like ourselves to feel that I could understand what their lives would be…
— Donald Griffin
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It's quite possible to arrive in the year 2030 where people are no longer dying of poverty. We could actually…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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