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Paul Theroux Quotes

Paul Theroux quotes

American Novelist April 10, 1941

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Paul Theroux quote: "It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are...."
It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources. Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux quote: "You go away for a long time and return a different person -..."
You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back. Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux quote: "You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the..."
You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in. Paul Theroux
I added that it was no fun to grow old, but that the compensation for it was that time turned your mental shit-detector into a highly calibrated instrument. Paul Theroux
Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. Once of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours. Paul Theroux
Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way Paul Theroux
What I remembered most clearly about this Jinja road was that on portions of it, for reasons no one could explain, butterflies settled in long fluffy tracts. There might be eighty feet of road carpeted by white butterflies, so many of them that if you drove too fast your tires lost their grip, and some people lost their lives, skidding on butterflies. Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux quote: "People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books."
People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books. Paul Theroux
For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a writer. Paul Theroux
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
I want to know the age. The sex. Most of all, the fingerprints. I'd like to identify who it is. After he had agreed, and I had left the office, walking to calm myself, I thought: And who am I? Please tell me who I am and what I'm doing. Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux quote: "People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people..."
People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction. Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux quote: "The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag..."
The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity. Paul Theroux
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. 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

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