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About the Paul Theroux
Paul Edward Therouxis an American novelist and travel writer who has written numerous books, including the travelogue The Great Railway Bazaar (1975). Some of his works of fiction have been adapted as feature films. He was awarded the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel The Mosquito Coast, which was adapted for the 1986 movie of the same name and the 2021 television series of the same name.
He is the father of English-American authors and documentary filmmakers Marcel and Louis Theroux, the brother of authors Alexander Theroux and Peter Theroux, and uncle of the American actor and screenwriter Justin Theroux.
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The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson’s on the main drag into maturity.
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Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
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Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.
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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.
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Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.
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The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
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Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
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Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
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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.
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I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.
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The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.
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It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.
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Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.
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You define a good flight by negatives: you didn’t get hijacked, you didn’t crash, you didn’t throw up, you weren’t late, you weren’t nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.
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Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.
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