20 ordspråk av Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux
 Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. |
| Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. |
| Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us. |
| It is the simplest fact of Indian life: there are too many Indians |
| Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation; and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind |
| The train passed fruit farms and clean villages and Swiss cycling in kerchiefs, calendar scenes that you admire for a moment before feeling an urge to move on to a new month |
| As Calcutta smells of death and Bombay of Money, Bangkok smells of sex, but this sexual aroma is mingled with the sharper whiffs of sex and money |
| It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled |
| I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better |
| The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves. |
| Riding the Iron Rooster. |
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