Quotes by Paul Theroux

As Calcutta smells of death and Bombay of Money, Bangkok smells of sex, but this...

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You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you...

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Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.

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Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

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Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

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There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy...

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The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

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The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

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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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I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.

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Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.

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