Quote by Paul Theroux
You define a good flight by negatives: you didnt get hijacked, you

You define a good flight by negatives: you didnt get hijacked, you didnt crash, you didnt throw up, you werent late, you werent nauseated by the food. So you are grateful. – Paul Theroux

Other quotes by Paul Theroux

If youre a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really dont like other people. Im not like that, I dont think. – Paul Theroux

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Home
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When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa I didnt make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didnt make a phone call. So for six years I didnt make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books. – Paul Theroux

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Peace
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Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldnt say that Im a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels – and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places. – Paul Theroux

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Travel
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Other Quotes from
Food
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We trust something in a grocery store and assume its good. We dont learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself! – Paul Prudhomme

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Food

I kept thinking, Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time… a show that got down to the why things happen. Plus, I hated my job – I didnt think it was very worthwhile. – Alton Brown

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Food

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. – Mark Twain

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Food

To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd. – Wendell Berry

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Food

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I love being a dad. Id have more kids if I could. Id take a couple more, one or two more before I croak. – Richie Sambora

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dad

Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling. – John Wooden

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great

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right. – Alexander Hamilton

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Alas after a certain age, every man is responsible for his own face. – Albert Camus

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Face, Faces