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Paul Theroux Quotes

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Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading  (Paul Theroux Quotes) Travel is glamorous only in retrospect  (Paul Theroux Quotes) Winter is a season of recovery and preparation  (Paul Theroux Quotes) Travel is only glamorous in retrospect  (Paul Theroux Quotes) I sought trains; I found passengers  (Paul Theroux Quotes) All places, no matter where, no matter what, are worth visiting  (Paul Theroux Quotes) The measure of civilized behavior is compassion  (Paul Theroux Quotes) I am happy being what I am  (Paul Theroux Quotes) One thing about cold weather: it brings out the statistician in everyone  (Paul Theroux Quotes) It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places  (Paul Theroux Quotes) Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves  (Paul Theroux Quotes) The more you write, the more you’re capable of writing  (Paul Theroux Quotes) Everyone had an opinion and no one had a solution  (Paul Theroux Quotes) Photographers are failed painters  (Paul Theroux Quotes) Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. Once 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 Quotes) 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  (Paul Theroux Quotes) I think that love isn’t what you think it is when you’re in your twenties or even thirties  (Paul Theroux Quotes) You may not know it but I’m no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in  (Paul Theroux Quotes) When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home  (Paul Theroux Quotes) Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in  (Paul Theroux Quotes) Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going  (Paul Theroux Quotes) The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity  (Paul Theroux Quotes) I’m constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read  (Paul Theroux Quotes) Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion  (Paul Theroux Quotes) The conversation, like many others I had with people on trains, derived an easy candour from the shared journey, the comfort of the dining car, and the certain knowledge that neither of us would see each other again  (Paul Theroux Quotes) Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing  (Paul Theroux Quotes) You can’t save the rhinos and you can’t preserve a culture. I’m very pessimistic. Once it’s gone, it’s over  (Paul Theroux Quotes) I don’t want to be the honored guest. I want to be the invisible person  (Paul Theroux Quotes) Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life  (Paul Theroux Quotes) Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation  (Paul Theroux Quotes)