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A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.

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Paul Theroux
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 10
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
Medford
Massachusetts
Paul Edward Theroux
Captures
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Essence
Novel
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Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life
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My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it.
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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.
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I greatly enjoyed Tom Reiss's The Orientalist, for its mingled scholarship and sleuthing, and for so elegantly solving the puzzle of one of the Twentieth Century's most mysterious writers.
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The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my life. I didn't like it.
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The journey, not the arrival, matters the voyage, not the landing.
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Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.
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Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.
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When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it.
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One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.
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Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.
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No one has ever described the place where I have just arrived: this is the emotion that makes me want to travel. It is one of the greatest reasons to go anywhere.
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One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.
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I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.
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Everyone had an opinion and no one had a solution.
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A gun show is about like-minded people who feel as if everything has been taken away from them - jobs, money, pride.
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It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.
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Writing ... is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.
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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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I don't want to be the honored guest. I want to be the invisible person.
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