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Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death.
Paul Theroux
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Paul Theroux
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 10
Film Writer
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Medford
Massachusetts
Paul Edward Theroux
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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 grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees.
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