"I loathe blogs when I look at them.……" — Paul Theroux
"I loathe blogs when I look at them. Blogs look, to me, illiterate. They look hasty, like someone babbling."
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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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Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.
— Benjamin Franklin
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At times, I come across as crude or crass, that irritates you when I come across like a Neanderthal or…
— Mike Tyson
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We do not understand democracy in its bourgeois meaning--of babbling, lack of discipline, anarchy. We understand democracy as the active…
— Nicolae Ceausescu
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Failure is an inescapable part of life and a critically important part of any successful life. We learn to walk…
— Tal Ben-Shahar
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At one year of age the child says his first intentional wordhis babbling has a purpose, and this intention is…
— Maria Montessori
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In Lullabies, I wanted to capture what I remembered of the drunken babbling of unfortunate twelve-year-olds: their illusions, their ludicrously bad…
— Heather O'Neill
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Thanks to Reagan, the insane now walk among us babbling about Starbucks and sodomite semen in this zombie apocalypse we…
— Unknown Author
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When the world shoves you around, you just gotta stand up and shove back. It's not like somebody's gonna save…
— Zoro
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There’s always time for babbling.
— Eoin Colfer
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Some day there may be... machinery that needs but to be wound up and sent roaming o'er hill and dale,…
— Edward Steichen
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If God had wanted to be a big secret, He would not have created babbling brooks and whispering pines.
— Robert Breault
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Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you…
— Johannes Tauler
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