"Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens……" — Paul Theroux
"Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens that transforms the whole nature of the trip and stays with the traveler."
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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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War is what happens when language fails.
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As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say,…
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Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
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There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
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You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with…
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A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.
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