"In a way, Che Guevara's fate was far……" — Paul Theroux
"In a way, Che Guevara's fate was far worse than Simon Bolivar's. Guevara's collapse was complete: his intentions were forgotten, but his style was taken up by boutique owners (one of the fanciest clothes stores in London is called Che Guevara). There is no faster way of destroying a man or mocking his ideas than making him fashionable. That Che succeeded in influencing dress-designers was part of his tragedy."
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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 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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They paved paradise and put up a parkin lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot…
— Joni Mitchell
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John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope…
— Edward Abbey
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I spend five times more money at a chemist shop than I would at a fashion boutique. Clothes shopping is…
— Kajol
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I worked in a boutique after work, my second job, selling women's clothes. And that was a way of not…
— Elie Tahari
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I've been working in boutique hotels my whole life.
— Geoffrey Zakarian
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There are these boutique writers out there who think if they are not writing their novels sitting at a bistro…
— Rick Bragg
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Women should be in the kitchen, the discotheque and the boutique, but not in football.
— Ron Atkinson
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Many feel that sitting at a screen sweating over the design of handrail details for the next cute downtown boutique…
— Cameron Sinclair
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I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.
— Celine Dion
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You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label.
— Edward Norton
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I've lost touch with a lot of that boutique-type music just because of my age, and raising my son and…
— Liz Phair
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I wanted my closet to look like a boutique.
— Kimora Lee Simmons
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