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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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It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.
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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 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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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 hate vacations. I hate them. I have no fun on them. I get nothing done. People sit and relax, but I don't want to relax. I want to see something.
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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 don't think that it's possible to have a truly rewarding experience in travel if it's simple.
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The journey, not the arrival, matters the voyage, not the landing.
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The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.
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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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It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.
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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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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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Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.
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I think I understand passion. Love is something else.
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I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With me, though, the happier I feel, the better I write.
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Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
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The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown.
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My greatest inspiration is memory.
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Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? “She drove me to my practice at four in the morning,” etc. Writing is not figure skating or skiing. Your mother will not make you a writer. My advice to any young person who wants to write is: leave home.
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