Paul Theroux Quotes

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My greatest inspiration ... is memory. - Paul Theroux quote.
My greatest inspiration ... is memory.
— Paul Theroux

memory

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. - Paul Theroux quote.
Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
— Paul Theroux

Travel

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us. - Paul Theroux quote.
Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
— Paul Theroux in The New York Times

fiction

Television needs excitement, it needs an angle, it needs a "sound bite." - Paul Theroux quote.
Television needs excitement, it needs an angle, it needs a "sound bite."
— Paul Theroux The New York Times Book Review
The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity. - Paul Theroux quote.
The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.
— Paul Theroux

idealist

Tourists don't know where they've been, travellers don't know where they're going. - Paul Theroux quote.
Tourists don't know where they've been, travellers don't know where they're going.
— Paul Theroux

Travel

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness. - Paul Theroux quote.
The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
— Paul Theroux The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia

manners

All writers look for a way out of writing.  But writing is like serving a jail sentence—you're not free until you've you're your time on the rock-heap. - Paul Theroux quote.
All writers look for a way out of writing.  But writing is like serving a jail sentence—you're not free until you've you're your time on the rock-heap.
— Paul Theroux Sunrise with Seamonsters

writing

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art. - Paul Theroux quote.
Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
— Paul Theroux Hockney’s Alphabet

death