Quote by Paul Theroux
Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great t

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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The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love. – Paul Theroux

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The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnsons on the main drag into maturity. – Paul Theroux

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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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All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel… and thats what Ive been doing all my life. – Count Basie

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When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money. – Susan Heller

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I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel. – Martin Lewis Perl

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A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. Its not about inventing. – Paul Theroux

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Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally. – Christian Lous Lange

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