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.
I am happy being what I am. - Paul Theroux
I am happy being what I am.
- Paul Theroux
Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel. - Paul Theroux
Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.
Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. - Paul Theroux
Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better. - Paul Theroux
I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.
You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back. - Paul Theroux
You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.
The measure of civilized behavior is compassion. - Paul Theroux
The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.
Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life - Paul Theroux
Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life
The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstance… - Paul Theroux
The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstance…
Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading. - Paul Theroux
Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.
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