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Paul Theroux quotes: The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do. The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.
Paul Theroux quotes: Listen, stranger; this was myself: this was I. Listen, stranger; this was myself: this was I.
Paul Theroux quotes: Normal, nice people don't become writers. Normal, nice people don't become writers.
Paul Theroux quotes: The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who don't want to travel. The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who don't want to travel.
Paul Theroux quotes: One thinks one is going to the tropics and one finds oneself in the Chinese version of Welwyn Garden City. One thinks one is going to the tropics and one finds oneself in the Chinese version of Welwyn Garden City.
Paul Theroux quotes: You leave the States, and you see people have bigger problems than you, much worse problems than you. You leave the States, and you see people have bigger problems than you, much worse problems than you.
Paul Theroux quotes: His education was sketchy, yet he was immensely learned in the oblique and selective way of someone self-taught. His education was sketchy, yet he was immensely learned in the oblique and selective way of someone self-taught.
Paul Theroux quotes: Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
Paul Theroux quotes: It's not fashionable but I like to spit out of the window of a moving train. It's not fashionable but I like to spit out of the window of a moving train.
Paul Theroux quotes: Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel. Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.
Paul Theroux quotes: I hate vacations. I hate them. I have no fun on them. I get nothing done. People sit and relax, but I don't want to relax. I want to see I hate vacations. I hate them. I have no fun on them. I get nothing done. People sit and relax, but I don't want to relax. I want to see something.
Paul Theroux quotes: A place that doesn't welcome tourists, that's really difficult and off the map, is a place I want to see. A place that doesn't welcome tourists, that's really difficult and off the map, is a place I want to see.
Paul Theroux quotes: He was serene, fulfilled, the real thing, the person no one wants to hear about, a happy man. He was serene, fulfilled, the real thing, the person no one wants to hear about, a happy man.
Paul Theroux quotes: The place that interests me most, actually, is the United States. I've realized that I haven't traveled much in the States. There's a lot to see. The place that interests me most, actually, is the United States. I've realized that I haven't traveled much in the States. There's a lot to see.
Paul Theroux quotes: I think that love isn't what you think it is when you're in your twenties or even thirties. I think that love isn't what you think it is when you're in your twenties or even thirties.
Paul Theroux quotes: Really there was no deadlier combination than bookworm and megalomaniac. It was, for example, the crazed condition of many novelists and travelers. Really there was no deadlier combination than bookworm and megalomaniac. It was, for example, the crazed condition of many novelists and travelers.
Paul Theroux quotes: Mimicry reassures the weak, and the envious fool takes the risk as often as the visionary who mocks the error and leave the man alone. Mimicry reassures the weak, and the envious fool takes the risk as often as the visionary who mocks the error and leave the man alone.
Paul Theroux quotes: In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark. In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark.
Paul Theroux quotes: Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading. Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.
Paul Theroux quotes: You need to be on your own so that you can meet people as you are, and as they are. You need to be on your own so that you can meet people as you are, and as they are.
Paul Theroux quotes: It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources. It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.
Paul Theroux quotes: Duffil had that uneasy look of a many who has left his parcels elsewhere,which is also the look of a man who thinks he's being followed. Duffil had that uneasy look of a many who has left his parcels elsewhere,which is also the look of a man who thinks he's being followed.
Paul Theroux quotes: Death rephrases the life of everyone who's near. Death rephrases the life of everyone who's near.
Paul Theroux quotes: All places, no matter where, no matter what, are worth visiting. All places, no matter where, no matter what, are worth visiting.
Paul Theroux quotes: Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death. Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death.
Paul Theroux quotes: The Swahili word safari means journey, it has nothing to do with animals, someone 'on safari' is just away and unobtainable and out of touch. The Swahili word safari means journey, it has nothing to do with animals, someone 'on safari' is just away and unobtainable and out of touch.
Paul Theroux quotes: The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning. The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.
Paul Theroux quotes: What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life. What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life.
Paul Theroux quotes: There are few things more abrasive to the human spirit, even in Patagonia, than someone standing behind you chomping and sucking ice cubes. There are few things more abrasive to the human spirit, even in Patagonia, than someone standing behind you chomping and sucking ice cubes.
Paul Theroux quotes: Maine is a joy in the summer. But the soul of Maine is more apparent in the winter. Maine is a joy in the summer. But the soul of Maine is more apparent in the winter.
Paul Theroux quotes: Banks and donors and charities claimed to have had successes in Mozambique. I suspected they invented these successes to justify their existence. Banks and donors and charities claimed to have had successes in Mozambique. I suspected they invented these successes to justify their existence.
Paul Theroux quotes: The saddest task for the ironist is having to tell the listener that it's a joke, because of course it is never a joke. The saddest task for the ironist is having to tell the listener that it's a joke, because of course it is never a joke.
Paul Theroux quotes: The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity. The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.
Paul Theroux quotes: The measure of civilized behavior is compassion. The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.
Paul Theroux quotes: People see a hungry face, and they want to feed it; that's a natural response. People see a hungry face, and they want to feed it; that's a natural response.
Paul Theroux quotes: My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it. My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it.
Paul Theroux quotes: All solitary travel offers a sort of special license allowing you to be anyone you want to be All solitary travel offers a sort of special license allowing you to be anyone you want to be
Paul Theroux quotes: There has to be a measure of difficulty or problem-solving in travel for it to be worthwhile. There has to be a measure of difficulty or problem-solving in travel for it to be worthwhile.
Paul Theroux quotes: Tourists who go to Africa have more of a traditional experience than Africans do. A tourist goes on safari; Africans don't. Tourists who go to Africa have more of a traditional experience than Africans do. A tourist goes on safari; Africans don't.
Paul Theroux quotes: But, truly, the worst trains take one across the best landscapes. But, truly, the worst trains take one across the best landscapes.
Paul Theroux quotes: People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction. People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.
Paul Theroux quotes: Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions. Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
Paul Theroux quotes: An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed. An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.
Paul Theroux quotes: These chicken feet are first quality. You appreciate them? These chicken feet are first quality. You appreciate them?
Paul Theroux quotes: A person who is tired of London is not necessarily tired of life; it might be that he just can't find a parking place. A person who is tired of London is not necessarily tired of life; it might be that he just can't find a parking place.
Paul Theroux quotes: I am happy being what I am. I am happy being what I am.
Paul Theroux quotes: I decided that travel was flight and pursuit in equal parts, I decided that travel was flight and pursuit in equal parts,
Paul Theroux quotes: Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent. Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent.
Paul Theroux quotes: Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine. Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.
Paul Theroux quotes: It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places. It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.
Paul Theroux quotes: Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens that transforms the whole nature of the trip and stays with the traveler. Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens that transforms the whole nature of the trip and stays with the traveler.
Paul Theroux quotes: Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening. Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening.
Paul Theroux quotes: Reading is also a journey. It's a process of discovery. Reading is also a journey. It's a process of discovery.
Paul Theroux quotes: You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back. You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.
Paul Theroux quotes: Everything is fiction. You only have your own life to work with in the way that a biographer only has the letters and journals to work with. Everything is fiction. You only have your own life to work with in the way that a biographer only has the letters and journals to work with.
Paul Theroux quotes: Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation. Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.
Paul Theroux quotes: I wanted something altogether wilder, the clumsier romance of strangeness. I wanted something altogether wilder, the clumsier romance of strangeness.
Paul Theroux quotes: Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation. Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
Paul Theroux quotes: All politicians, even the most idealistic ones, are looking for money, sucking up to rich people. All politicians, even the most idealistic ones, are looking for money, sucking up to rich people.
Paul Theroux quotes: When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home. When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home.
Paul Theroux quotes: I cannot make my days longer, so I strive to make them better. I cannot make my days longer, so I strive to make them better.
Paul Theroux quotes: The happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance is not the works of Shakespeare (as Buck Mulligan says) but the Holy Bible. The happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance is not the works of Shakespeare (as Buck Mulligan says) but the Holy Bible.
Paul Theroux quotes: The Colombians are good-tempered people. They are used to waiting for buses that are late, used to riding buses and trains that do not arrive. The Colombians are good-tempered people. They are used to waiting for buses that are late, used to riding buses and trains that do not arrive.
Paul Theroux quotes: There's books that are about places we will never go, and then there's books that inspire us to go. There's books that are about places we will never go, and then there's books that inspire us to go.
Paul Theroux quotes: A foreign swear-word is practically inoffensive except to the person who has learnt it early in life and knows its social limits. A foreign swear-word is practically inoffensive except to the person who has learnt it early in life and knows its social limits.
Paul Theroux quotes: The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming. The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming.
Paul Theroux quotes: In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed. In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.
Paul Theroux quotes: There's always a way if you're not in a hurry. There's always a way if you're not in a hurry.
Paul Theroux quotes: Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience. Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience.
Paul Theroux quotes: Fiction gives us the second chance that life denies us. Fiction gives us the second chance that life denies us.
Paul Theroux quotes: I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction. I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction.
Paul Theroux quotes: When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there. When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.
Paul Theroux quotes: Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us. Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
Paul Theroux quotes: Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us. Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us.
Paul Theroux quotes: Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation
experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way
Paul Theroux quotes: And that is all anyone can do, try to be honest about what he feels, what he's seen or thinks he's seen. And that is all anyone can do, try to be honest about what he feels, what he's seen or thinks he's seen.
Paul Theroux quotes: You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in. You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.
Paul Theroux quotes: Reading made me a traveler; travel sent me back to books. Reading made me a traveler; travel sent me back to books.
Paul Theroux quotes: One of my fears is not writing. I don't know how to do anything else. One of my fears is not writing. I don't know how to do anything else.
Paul Theroux quotes: If I read enough about one country I sometimes found that the intensity of the reading removed by desire to travel there. If I read enough about one country I sometimes found that the intensity of the reading removed by desire to travel there.
Paul Theroux quotes: Writing ... is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive. Writing ... is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.
Paul Theroux quotes: I've never spent a whole year in one place without leaving. I've never spent a whole year in one place without leaving.
Paul Theroux quotes: Tightfisted people are as mean with friendship as they are with cashsuspicious, unbelieving, and incurious. Tightfisted people are as mean with friendship as they are with cash
suspicious, unbelieving, and incurious.
Paul Theroux quotes: Winter is a season of recovery and preparation. Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.
Paul Theroux quotes: On that trip it was my good fortune to be wrong; being mistaken is the essence of the traveler's tale. On that trip it was my good fortune to be wrong; being mistaken is the essence of the traveler's tale.
Paul Theroux quotes: Time is a factor in travel, one of the most crucial. Time is a factor in travel, one of the most crucial.
Paul Theroux quotes: Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion. Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion.
Paul Theroux quotes: Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control. Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control.
Paul Theroux quotes: book of Revelation, book of Revelation,
Paul Theroux quotes: I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble. I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble.
Paul Theroux quotes: Solitary people make the best travellers Solitary people make the best travellers
Paul Theroux quotes: For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a writer. For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a writer.
Paul Theroux quotes: Airplanes have dulled and desensitized us; we are encumbered, like lovers in a suit of armor. Airplanes have dulled and desensitized us; we are encumbered, like lovers in a suit of armor.
Paul Theroux quotes: If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think. If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.
Paul Theroux quotes: The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given. The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.
Paul Theroux quotes: The more you write, the more you're capable of writing. The more you write, the more you're capable of writing.
Paul Theroux quotes: Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace. Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.
Paul Theroux quotes: Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in. Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.
Paul Theroux quotes: I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely. I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.
Paul Theroux quotes: You must not judge people by their country. In South America, it is always wise to judge people by their altitude. You must not judge people by their country. In South America, it is always wise to judge people by their altitude.

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