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hope

Paul Theroux | hope

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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Home

Paul Theroux | home

When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home.

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Home

Paul Theroux | 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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friendship

Paul Theroux | friendship

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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Food

Paul Theroux | food

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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Death

Paul Theroux | death

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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Dad

Paul Theroux | dad

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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business

Paul Theroux | business

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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alone

Quote from Paul Theroux | alone

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The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road

Quote from Paul Theroux, The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road

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..

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