Quotes by Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux

American travel writer and novelist

Lived from: 1941 -

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 10 april 1941

  • 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're grateful.

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  • 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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  • Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
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  • The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate's career. He can either forget it, or capitalize on it. Most choose the latter.
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  • Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
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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're grateful.
    ― Paul Theroux
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