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Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux
American Novelist
Born: Apr 10, 1941
Life Me People Think Travel You
Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach
I am happy being what I am. Paul Theroux
Happy Am Being
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.' Paul Theroux
Life Work Love Hope Me Happy Thought First Changed Born Point First Child Understand Child Moment Whole Filled Now Ever
Maine is a joy in the summer. But the soul of Maine is more apparent in the winter. Paul Theroux
Winter Soul Joy Summer More Maine Apparent
I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely. Paul Theroux
You Solitude Phone Lonely Isolation Idea Like Still Connected
Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing. Paul Theroux
You Will Reputation Unreliable Never Being Gain Modest Asked Thing
I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better. Paul Theroux
Better Strive Longer Days Make Cannot Them
I think I am typical in believing that the Peace Corps trained us brilliantly and then did little more except send us into the bush. It was not a bad way of running things. Paul Theroux
Peace Think Typical Way Corps Bad Running More Except Bad Way Am Trained Did Send Little Bush Then Us Peace Corps Believing Things Brilliantly
Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation. Paul Theroux
Friendship Exploitation Weakness Mutual About Failings Also Liking Person Help
A journey awakens all our old fears of danger and risk. Your life is on the line. You are living by your own resources; you have to find your own way and solve every problem on the road. Paul Theroux
Life Journey You Problem Old Fears Own Living Every Our Resources Way Danger Find Solve Risk Road Line Your Awakens
Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace. Paul Theroux
Grace Mind State Hawaii
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. Paul Theroux
Life Love You Travel New Life Somewhere Fall Thinking Trees Could Idea New Era Go Up Escape Children Grew Little Little Children Palm
I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels. Paul Theroux
Life Great Change Will Reading Predict Once Paper Say More Only Habits Writer Pile Greatest How Were Loss Stack Tiny Where Little Notebooks Cookies Manuscripts Plastic Letters
Television cannot film corruption. Television cannot spend five days on a rattling railway train, talking endlessly. Television needs excitement, it needs an angle, it needs a 'sound bite. Paul Theroux
Needs Corruption Spend Bite Television Angle Rattling Excitement Days Talking Sound Sound Bite Five Train Endlessly Cannot Film Railway
Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. Paul Theroux
Travel Tourists Know Been Going Where Travelers
I don't look down on tourism. I live in Hawaii where we have 7 million visitors a year. If they weren't there, there would be no economy. So I understand why a tourist economy is necessary. Paul Theroux
Year Down Live Visitors Would Would-Be Hawaii Tourism Tourist Economy Look Understand Were Where Why Million Necessary
The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people, an exotic place. Certainly finding a place that you like or discovering something unusual is a very sustaining thing in travel. Paul Theroux
Home You Travel People Other Finding Something Pursue Like Unusual Discovering Exotic Very Get Impulses Sustaining Place Landscape Certainly Away Thing Two
The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do. Paul Theroux
Business People Hong Kong Criticized Only Allowed Kong Been Being The Only Thing Interested Thing
Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me. Paul Theroux
Me Type Magical Seem Seemed Were Texts Movable Certainly Who Manuscripts Illuminating Copying Monks
The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity. Paul Theroux
Peace Maturity Corps Johnson Main Sort Peace Corps Drag
Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us. Paul Theroux
Life Gives Denies Fiction Us Second Second Chances Chances
You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful. Paul Theroux
Good Food You Travel Grateful Late Negatives Define Throw Hijacked Were Up Get Crash Flight
It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled. Paul Theroux
Lonely Principled Expensive
There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment. Paul Theroux
Think Hat Wealthy About More Development Annoying Rock Rock Star Cowboy Cowboy Hat Irish Than African Being Moment Star Things
The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness. Paul Theroux
Good Rudeness Made Manners Good Manners Indistinguishable Japanese Them
Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions. Paul Theroux
Men Late Bad Make Very Often Decisions
When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that any great thing has happened to me. But I felt so tiny, so lost. Paul Theroux
God Great Me Lost Think About Write Great Thing Felt How Get Did Any Childhood Oh Tiny Oh My God Happened Ever Thing Here
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