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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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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. – 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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Its only when youre alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources. – Paul Theroux

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The more you travel, the more well-off youll be, I think. – RJ Mitte

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I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didnt have money to travel. I thought Id have to join the military to get to Europe. So Im thrilled to travel. – Chris Isaak

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I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects. – Patricia Velasquez

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Once youre in the game and its a part of your life, you never want to leave it. But you have to be committed to be able to travel and do the things you need to do to be successful in whatever role youre doing. – Joe Sakic

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This great misfortune — to be incapable of solitude. – Jean De La Bruyere

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When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then. – John Oliver Hobbes

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There are two sorts of curiosity – the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things. – Robert Wilson Lynd

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