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

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Tourists dont know where theyve been, travelers dont know where theyre going. – Paul Theroux

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Travel
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When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as Ive gone on. I certainly dont feel I need his approval, although maybe thats because Im confident that Ive got it. – Paul Theroux

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dad
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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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Food
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You can make any meal into a sandwich, and any sandwich into a meal. – Jeff Mauro, a.k.a. The Sandwich King

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Food

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. – Margaret Fuller

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Food

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Food

All sorrows are less with bread. – Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

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Food

Random Quotes

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. – Ezra Pound

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Belief

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. – St.Augustine

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Self-Discovery

The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be ones appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship. – Amelia Earhart

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Vacations

When youre young you think that youre going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue. – Doris Lessing

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Peace