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My greatest inspiration is memory.
Paul Theroux
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Paul Theroux
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 10
Film Writer
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Medford
Massachusetts
Paul Edward Theroux
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I sought trains I found passengers.
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It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.
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The biggest surprise was that a country like Angola, that has so much money, that produces so much oil, would be in such a mess and so difficult to travel in. Something is almost cursed in striking oil. It's like the lottery winner who ends up broke.
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Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.
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The man who is tired of London is tired of looking for a parking space
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It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.
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I'm not pessimistic about Africa. The cities just seem big and hopeless. But there's still a great green heart where there's possibility. There's hope in the wilderness.
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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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I don't look down on tourism. I live in Hawaii where we have 7 million visitors a year. If they weren't there, there would be no economy. So I understand why a tourist economy is necessary.
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I don't want to be the honored guest. I want to be the invisible person.
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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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Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death.
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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 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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Writing ... is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.
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Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
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The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.
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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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One thing about cold weather: it brings out the statistician in everyone.
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Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
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