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 works best when youre forced to come to terms with the place youre in. – Paul Theroux

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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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Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. – Henry David Thoreau

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You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies dont. – John Stossel

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I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldnt do it alone. – Joichi Ito

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