"... the grand tour is just the inspired……" — Paul Theroux
"... the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home."
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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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I have no grand scheme.
— Dave Attell
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Maybe if they start playing new rock bands videos, then maybe but there is no point in a guy like…
— Sebastian Bach
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The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human…
— Ansel Adams
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When I love, I do it without counting. I give myself entirely. And each time, it is the grand love…
— Brigitte Bardot
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Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done…
— Edward Abbey
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I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design…
— John Adams
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
— Joseph Addison
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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not…
— William Blake
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I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while…
— Nellie Bly
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I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival.
— John Bolton
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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
— Bono
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'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.
— Nolan Bushnell
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