Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Paul Theroux quotes, Paul Theroux sayings, and Paul Theroux proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way.Paul Theroux
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One thing about cold weather: it brings out the statistician in everyone.Paul Theroux
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Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.Paul Theroux
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Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.Paul Theroux
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Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.Paul Theroux
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Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.Paul Theroux
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Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.Paul Theroux
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Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.Paul Theroux
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A gun show is about like-minded people who feel as if everything has been taken away from them - jobs, money, pride.Paul Theroux
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Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.Paul Theroux
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The grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.Paul Theroux
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Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative wayPaul Theroux
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Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.Paul 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.Paul Theroux
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The Colombians are good-tempered people. They are used to waiting for buses that are late, used to riding buses and trains that do not arrive.Paul Theroux
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Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion.Paul Theroux
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Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals.Paul Theroux
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Maine is a joy in the summer. But the soul of Maine is more apparent in the winter.Paul Theroux
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A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.Paul Theroux
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Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.Paul Theroux
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There is no faster way of destroying a man, or mocking his ideas, than making him fashionable.Paul Theroux
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One of the upsides of tourism is that people begin to take themselves a little more seriously (and think their) culture is worth something. So rather than disparaging the local culture, they vitalize it.Paul Theroux
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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.Paul Theroux
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You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.Paul Theroux
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Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.Paul Theroux
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Even the most distant and exotic place has its parallel in ordinary life.Paul Theroux
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The train can reasssure you in awful places -- a far cry from the anxious sweats of doom aeroplanes inspire, or the nauseating gas-sickness of the long-distance bus, or the paralysis that afflicts the car passenger.Paul Theroux
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Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It’s also about mutual help, not about exploitation.Paul Theroux
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Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals.Paul Theroux
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Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals.Paul Theroux