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Paul Theroux
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"When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home."
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Paul Theroux
Topic(s):
Home
"If you’re a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don’t like other people. I’m not like that, I don’t think."
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Paul Theroux
Topic(s):
Home
"Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It’s also about mutual help, not about exploitation."
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Paul Theroux
Topic(s):
Friendship
"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."
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Paul Theroux
Topic(s):
Food
"When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I’ve gone on. I certainly don’t feel I need his approval, although maybe that’s because I’m confident that I’ve got it."
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Paul Theroux
Topic(s):
Dad
"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."
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Paul Theroux
Topic(s):
Change
"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."
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Paul Theroux
Topic(s):
Business
"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."
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Paul Theroux
Topic(s):
Art
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