"travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts." — Paul Theroux

"travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts."

— Paul Theroux

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148 Quotes by Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux has 148 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his…
Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.
The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience -…
The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind…
Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and…
They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.
The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.
In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.
Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.
The conversation, like many others I had with people on trains, derived an easy candour from the shared journey, the…
My greatest inspiration is memory.
Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors…

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state… — Aristotle
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because… — Aristotle
If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. — Wystan Hugh Auden
In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. — Jane Austen
I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than… — David Bailey
From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic… — Mikhail Bakunin
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen… — Honore de Balzac
The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not… — Honore de Balzac
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall. — James M. Barrie

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