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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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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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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Home
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Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. Its also about mutual help, not about exploitation. – Paul Theroux

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Friendship
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Alone Im nothing. – Robert Plant

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The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. Its not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work. – Augusten Burroughs

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I dont know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me. – Joseph Barbera

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The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone. – Pope John XXIII

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All handling by IPCC of the Sea Level questions have been done in a way that cannot be accepted and that certainly not concur with modern knowledge of the mode and mechanism of sea level changes. – Nils-Axel Morner

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For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. I Corinthians – Bible

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