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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.
Paul Theroux
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Paul Theroux
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 10
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Massachusetts
Paul Edward Theroux
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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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If people are driving you around to look at animals, that's wonderful. That's educational, but it's not necessarily enlightening and you're not finding out much about yourself.
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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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The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.
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You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.
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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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One of the upsides of tourism is that people begin to take themselves a little more seriously (and think their) culture is worth something. So rather than disparaging the local culture, they vitalize it.
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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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I don't want to be the honored guest. I want to be the invisible person.
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Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.
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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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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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The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.
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He regarded himself as an accomplished writer — a clear sign of madness in anyone.
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I believe I have a sunny disposition, and am not naturally a grouch. It takes a lot of optimism, after all, to be a traveler.
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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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Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.
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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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Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.
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