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

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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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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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When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books.
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I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.
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I don't think that it's possible to have a truly rewarding experience in travel if it's simple.
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The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.
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