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My greatest inspiration is memory.

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Paul Theroux
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 10
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
Medford
Massachusetts
Paul Edward Theroux
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Basically, what you find out is the limits of your patience and your strength and your capacity to adapt. You find that out in travel and being alone and being tested. So that's a great thing.
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I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.
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The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.
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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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Tibet has a very proud people but it's culturally gone and overrun ever since the Chinese took over. It's like saving the rhino. When a species is endangered, it's gone.
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The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
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My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because islands are small self-contained worlds that can help us understand larger ones.
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I think most serious and omnivorous readers are alike- intense in their dedication to the word, quiet-minded, but relieved and eagerly talkative when they meet other readers and kindred spirits.
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Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience.
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Fogeydom is the last bastion of the bore and reminiscence is its anthem. It is futile to want the old days back, but that doesn't mean one should ignore the lessons of the visitable past.
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Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control.
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Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.
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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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I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.
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One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.
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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 an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.
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I sought trains I found passengers.
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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.
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You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.
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