Paul Theroux Quotes

• I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.

  Paul Theroux

  Inspiring, Strive, Productivity

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• The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Moving, Risk

  "The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road". Book by Paul Theroux, May 19, 2011.

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• My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because islands are small self-contained worlds that can help us understand larger ones.

  Paul Theroux

  Islands, Self, World

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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

  Long, Going Away, Different

  Paul Theroux (2004). “Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown”, p.470, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life

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  Live Your Life, Destination, Reaching

  Paul Theroux (2011). “The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.

  Paul Theroux

  Mines, Ifs

  Paul Theroux (2011). “The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.

  Paul Theroux

  Reading, World, Knows

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• What I find is that you can do almost anything or go almost anywhere, if you're not in a hurry.

  Paul Theroux

  Life, Can Do, Ifs

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific”, p.97, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Los turistas no saben dónde han estado, los viajeros no saben adónde van.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Adventure, Journey

  Paul Theroux (2011). “The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Viajar es un estado de ánimo. No tiene nada que ver con la existencia o lo exótico. Casi siempre es una experiencia interior.

  Paul Theroux

  Mind, Exotic, States

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• Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Reality, Delay

  Paul Theroux (2009). “Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar”, p.88, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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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  Funny, Travel, Grateful

  Paul Theroux (2011). “To the Ends of the Earth: The Selected Travels of Paul Theroux”, p.85, Ivy Books

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• People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write three pages about how long it took them to get a visa. I'm not interested in the boring parts. Everyone has tummy trouble. Everyone waits in line. I don't want to hear about it.

  Paul Theroux

  Escritura, Largo, Gente

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• The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.

  Paul Theroux

  Compassion, Behavior, Civilized

  Paul Theroux (2004). “Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Everyone had an opinion and no one had a solution.

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  Life, Opinion, Solutions

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.

  Paul Theroux

  Gains, Reputation, Modest

  Paul Theroux (1986). “Sunrise with Seamonsters”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Viajar es una actitud, un estado de ánimo. No es residencia, es movimiento.

  Paul Theroux

  Attitude, Mind, States

  Paul Theroux (2001). “The Best American Travel Writing 2001”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

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  Fall, Realizing, Resources

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• Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.

  Paul Theroux

  Second Chance, Giving, Fiction

  New York Times, July 28, 1976.

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• It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.

  Paul Theroux

  Lonely, Principled, Expensive

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• All places, no matter where, no matter what, are worth visiting.

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  Matter, No Matter What, Visiting

  Paul Theroux (2011). “The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean”, p.53, Ballantine Books

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• The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

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  Sarcastic, Rude, Manners

  Paul Theroux (1976). “The great railway bazaar: by train through Asia”

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• In Turkey it was always 1952, in Malaysia 1937; Afghanistan was 1910 and Bolivia 1949. It is 20 years ago in the Soviet Union, 10 in Norway, five in France. It is always last year in Australia and next week in Japan.

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  Japan, Next Week, Years

  Paul Theroux (2012). “The Lower River”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Basically, what you find out is the limits of your patience and your strength and your capacity to adapt. You find that out in travel and being alone and being tested. So that's a great thing.

  Paul Theroux

  Limits, Capacity, Great Things

  Fuente: www.usatoday.com

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• The more you write, the more you're capable of writing.

  Paul Theroux

  Writing, Capable

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