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The more you write, the more you're capable of writing.

Paul Theroux

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Paul Theroux
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 10
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
Medford
Massachusetts
Paul Edward Theroux
Capable
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In Turkey it was always 1952, in Malaysia 1937 Afghanistan was 1910 and Bolivia 1949. It is 20 years ago in the Soviet Union, 10 in Norway, five in France. It is always last year in Australia and next week in Japan.
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My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it.
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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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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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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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Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
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The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
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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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Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.
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Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
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The journey, not the arrival, matters the voyage, not the landing.
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Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.
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No one has ever described the place where I have just arrived: this is the emotion that makes me want to travel. It is one of the greatest reasons to go anywhere.
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Writing ... is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.
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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 think I understand passion. Love is something else.
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