"Maine out of season is unmistakably a great……" — Paul Theroux
"Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals."
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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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A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes…
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(Dwight Gooden) his fastball crackling , his curveball dropping as suddenly as a duck shot in the air, has begun…
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Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication,…
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As one sits here in summertime and listens to the cuckoo and all the other bird songs, the crackling and…
— Carl Linnaeus
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Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an…
— Henry Rollins
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Thrilling, illuminating, heart-pounding. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy reads like a crackling espionage novel and resonates as only the most compelling…
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This means that we have barely disembarked into life, that we've only just now been born, let's not fill our…
— Pablo Neruda
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We love to hear some men speak, though we hear not what they say; the very air they breathe is…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I enjoy having breakfast in bed. I like waking up to the smell of bacon, sue me. And since I…
— Michael Scott
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Because they do burn leaves here, the older folks do, and I remember now that I love it and always…
— Megan Abbott
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The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires…
— Ernie Pyle
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But I will place this carefully fed pig Within the crackling oven; and, I pray, What nicer dish can e'er…
— Aeschylus
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