Quote by Paul Theroux
Its only when youre alone that you realize where you are. You have

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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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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The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriates career. He can either forget it, or capitalize on it. Most choose the latter. – Paul Theroux

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Exile
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I mean, I dont think Im alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my minds eye. You dont think they were cute like every other baby? – Dustin Hoffman

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Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. – Joseph Conrad

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Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I dont have a game. Im so alone, so depressed, so dark, no. – Jason Schwartzman

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I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didnt have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling… Im the most sampled artist in history. – Rick James

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