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Paul Theroux
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"Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn’t say that I’m a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels – and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places."
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Paul Theroux
Topic(s):
Travel
"A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It’s not about inventing."
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Paul Theroux
Topic(s):
Travel
"Travel works best when you’re forced to come to terms with the place you’re in."
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Paul Theroux
Topic(s):
Travel
"The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming."
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Paul Theroux
Topic(s):
Travel
"Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind."
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Paul Theroux
Topic(s):
Travel
"Travel is glamorous only in retrospect."
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Paul Theroux
Topic(s):
Travel
"Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going."
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Paul Theroux
Topic(s):
Travel
"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."
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Paul Theroux
Topic(s):
Peace
"The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson’s on the main drag into maturity."
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Paul Theroux
Topic(s):
Peace
"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.’"
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Paul Theroux
Topic(s):
Hope
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