13 Quotes by Paul Theroux
- Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.
- 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.
- The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.
- Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
- Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
- Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
- Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.
- Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.
- I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.
- It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.
- The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.
- The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
- There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment.
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