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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
Novelist
Writer
Medford
Massachusetts
Paul Edward Theroux
Memories
Inspiration
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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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I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I'd touched bottom.
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Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.
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I don't want to be the honored guest. I want to be the invisible person.
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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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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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It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.
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Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
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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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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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When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't think that is the case now. And it's a place where people still kid themselves - you know, in a few years this will happen or that will happen. Well, it's not going to happen. It's never going to happen.
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It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.
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Indian enterprises seemed to work so well they produced disasters success made them burst at the seams and the disruption of unprecedented orders led to shortages and finally failure.
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Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
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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.
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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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I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.
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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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...a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.
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One thing about cold weather: it brings out the statistician in everyone.
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