"Literary life used to be quite different in……" — Paul Theroux
"Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was not a factor - no one made very much except from U.S. sales and the occasional windfall."
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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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Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster…
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I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the…
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Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
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We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we,…
— Tony Blair
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Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.
— Tony Blair
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But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the…
— Tony Blair
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Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new…
— Tony Blair
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But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain,…
— Bono
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I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.
— David Bowie
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The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers…
— Bill Bryson
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Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of…
— Bill Bryson
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Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's…
— Julie Burchill
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