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Paul Theroux Quotes

Paul Theroux quotes about home

American Novelist April 10, 1941

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The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work, travel is perfect: let other people wait for a change. Travel is a sort of revenge for having been put on hold, or having to leave messages on answering machines, not knowing your party's extension, being kept waiting all your working life - the homebound writer's irritants. But also being kept waiting is the human conditon. Paul Theroux
All travel is circular. I had been jerked through Asia, making a parabola on one of the planet's hemispheres. After all, the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home. Paul Theroux
Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? “She drove me to my practice at four in the morning,” etc. Writing is not figure skating or skiing. Your mother will not make you a writer. My advice to any young person who wants to write is: leave home. Paul Theroux
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. Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux quote: "When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home."
When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home. Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux quote: "Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and..."
Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening. Paul Theroux

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