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The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality.
— Alexander Theroux
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
One thinks one is going to the tropics and one finds oneself in the Chinese version of Welwyn Garden City.
— Paul Theroux
Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs?
— Alexander Theroux
Every house has its own private cup of sorrow. (3)
— Phyllis Theroux
D.C. is a hard city to grow up in. I couldn't find my footing there. Also, I got a late start academically, and I was dyslexic.
— Justin Theroux
A place that doesn't welcome tourists, that's really difficult and off the map, is a place I want to see.
— Paul Theroux
He was serene, fulfilled, the real thing, the person no one wants to hear about, a happy man.
— Paul Theroux
I think that love isn't what you think it is when you're in your twenties or even thirties.
— Paul Theroux
A gun show is about like-minded people who feel as if everything has been taken away from them - jobs, money, pride.
— Paul Theroux
I'm a tourist, a glorified tourist. I'm not doing it to have a good time or to lie in the sun.
— Paul Theroux
Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.
— Paul Theroux
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
To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler.
— Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.
— Alexander Theroux
for too easily we come to love love first and not...that from which it comes.
— Alexander Theroux
September: it was the most beautiful of words, he'd always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.
— Alexander Theroux
Now, with no hate group to run, Jerry spent his days playing Mah-jong on his computer
— Louis Theroux
The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.
— Paul Theroux
Silence is the unbearable repartee.
— Alexander Theroux
Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all.
— Alexander Theroux
I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read.
— Paul Theroux
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
Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.
— Alexander Theroux
I always go to bed thinking I'm the luckiest guy in the world.
— Justin Theroux
Though there is something cruel about being in Hawaii and you have a computer in front of you the whole time.
— Justin Theroux
Airplanes have dulled and desensitized us; we are encumbered, like lovers in a suit of armor.
— Paul Theroux
An aimless joy is a pure joy," I said, quoting Yeats.
— Paul Theroux
You can't want to be a writer. You have to be one.
— Paul Theroux
The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming.
— Paul Theroux
There is no faster way of destroying a man, or mocking his ideas, than making him fashionable.
— Paul Theroux
Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.
— Paul Theroux
I loathe blogs when I look at them. Blogs look, to me, illiterate. They look hasty, like someone babbling.
— Paul Theroux
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
There's books that are about places we will never go, and then there's books that inspire us to go.
— Paul Theroux
My greatest inspiration is memory.
— Paul Theroux
Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.
— Paul Theroux
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
There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.
— Alexander Theroux
The more you write, the more you're capable of writing.
— Paul Theroux
I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction.
— Paul Theroux
I've always been pretty happy with my style. I've been wearing tapered jeans since 1980 something.
— Justin Theroux
Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.
— Paul Theroux
Loneliness in travel directs you and tells you about yourself. You don't become lonely unless you're alone.
— Paul Theroux
You must not judge people by their country. In South America, it is always wise to judge people by their altitude.
— Paul Theroux
In New York, you can bump into someone on the street and go to a thing, go get coffee real quick.
— Justin Theroux
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
I kneel to my Lord because I am such a failure. I pray, I hope, I look to the Gospels.
— Alexander Theroux
I believe I have a sunny disposition, and am not naturally a grouch. It takes a lot of optimism, after all, to be a traveler.
— Paul Theroux
Real love opens doors to something larger than oneself.
— Phyllis Theroux
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
There is probably no such thing as an innocent question, at least not when a parent is doing the asking.
— Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
The ears, which master the face of a dunce, are that part of the head which most publishes stupidity.
— Alexander Theroux
Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.
— Justin Theroux
Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us.
— Paul Theroux
She said. "I actually had my butt torn a few weeks ago. But it's like any job. You have good days and bad days.
— Louis Theroux
Reading made me a traveler; travel sent me back to books.
— Paul Theroux
You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.
— Paul Theroux
If I read enough about one country I sometimes found that the intensity of the reading removed by desire to travel there.
— Paul Theroux
I've never been the guy who's like, 'I take it home with me.'
— Justin Theroux
Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion.
— Paul Theroux
I've never been shocked by anything on television, except the news.
— Justin Theroux
What arrogance made us think we were far enough to be safe?
— Marcel Theroux
In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.
— Paul Theroux
There's always a way if you're not in a hurry.
— Paul Theroux
To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.
— Phyllis Theroux
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
We revisit those places where we experienced love, as pilgrims return to holy places, to be reminded, restored, and reaffirmed by them.
— Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
Fiction gives us the second chance that life denies us.
— Paul Theroux
I do not want to be young again.
— Paul Theroux
The mustard on the roof of my mouth gave me the feeling that someone was removing my nasal hair with a blowtorch.
— Marcel Theroux
Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.
— Alexander Theroux
The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
— Paul Theroux
Writing is a deeply spiritual act that can have a profound effect upon the practitioner.
— Phyllis Theroux
We are willing to lose ourselves in another as we exchange fates with one whom we love but on whom our heart is nevertheless impaled.
— Alexander Theroux
Believe me, England's prisons are full of splendid people.
— Paul Theroux
Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
— Paul Theroux