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...a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.
Paul Theroux
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Paul Theroux
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 10
Film Writer
Novelist
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Medford
Massachusetts
Paul Edward Theroux
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A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.
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Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion.
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A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.
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I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read.
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Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.
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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 more you write, the more you're capable of writing.
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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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Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.
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Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death.
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Everyone had an opinion and no one had a solution.
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There is no faster way of destroying a man, or mocking his ideas, than making him fashionable.
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I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I'd touched bottom.
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The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.
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Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.
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Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketing, and generally less congenial - but my day is the same: get out of bed, procrastinate, sit down at my desk, try to write something.
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Railways are irresistible bazaars, snaking along perfectly level no matter what the landscape, improving your mood with speed, and never upsetting your drink.
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Writers are painful friends, and they are seldom friendly with others. They are insecure in the presence of other writers. Composers of certain kinds of music are the same--tormented and intolerant. Yet some arts not only make the artist social but make him depend upon sociability in order to succeed. Painting is one.
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Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
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Albania in 1994 was the strangest place I've ever seen. It was like walking into the looking glass: falling apart, paranoid people, anarchy, no one farming, full of thieves. It was beyond any Third World country. They were living in their own private nightmare.
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