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One thing about cold weather:...

One thing about cold weather: it brings out the statistician in everyone.

Paul Theroux 202 quotes

The biggest surprise was that...

The biggest surprise was that a country like Angola, that has so much money, that produces so much oil, would be in such a mess and so difficult to travel in. Something is almost cursed in striking oil. It's like the lottery winner who ends up broke.

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Cooking requires confident gu...

Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way

Paul Theroux 202 quotes

... the grand tour is just th...

... the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

Paul Theroux 202 quotes

One of the upsides of tourism...

One of the upsides of tourism is that people begin to take themselves a little more seriously (and think their) culture is worth something. So rather than disparaging the local culture, they vitalize it.

Paul Theroux 202 quotes

The conversation, like many o...

The conversation, like many others I had with people on trains, derived an easy candour from the shared journey, the comfort of the dining car, and the certain knowledge that neither of us would see each other again.

Paul Theroux 202 quotes

I don't think that it's possi...

I don't think that it's possible to have a truly rewarding experience in travel if it's simple.

Paul Theroux 202 quotes

I'm a tourist, a glorified to...

I'm a tourist, a glorified tourist. I'm not doing it to have a good time or to lie in the sun.

Paul Theroux 202 quotes

The realization that he is wh...

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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A national crisis, a politica...

A national crisis, a political convulsion, is an opportunity, a gift to the traveler. Nothing is more revealing of a place to a stranger than trouble. Even if a crisis is incomprehensible, as it usually is, it lends drama to the day and transforms the traveler into an eye witness.

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The traveler's boast, sometim...

The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience - shocking though it may seem at the time - is an enrichment, even a blessing, one of the life-altering trophies of the road.

Paul Theroux 202 quotes

Bogot? seemed a cruel towerin...

Bogot? seemed a cruel towering place, like an eagles' nest now inhabited by vultures and their dying prey.

Paul Theroux 202 quotes

The difference between travel...

The difference between travel writing as fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows. Fiction is pure joy - how sad that I could not reinvent the trip as fiction.

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Now and then in travel, somet...

Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens that transforms the whole nature of the trip and stays with the traveler.

Paul Theroux 202 quotes

Home is always the impossible...

Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening.

Paul Theroux 202 quotes

Reading alters the appearance...

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.

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Basically, what you find out ...

Basically, what you find out is the limits of your patience and your strength and your capacity to adapt. You find that out in travel and being alone and being tested. So that's a great thing.

Paul Theroux 202 quotes

Painters strike me as having ...

Painters strike me as having warm uncomplicated friendships and probably more natural generosity than the practitioners of any other art. Perhaps this is because painting is such a portable, flexible thing.

Paul Theroux 202 quotes

The Colombians are good-tempe...

The Colombians are good-tempered people. They are used to waiting for buses that are late, used to riding buses and trains that do not arrive.

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Travel is a state of mind. It...

Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience.

Paul Theroux 202 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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