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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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Travel works best when youre forced to come to terms with the place youre in. – 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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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up. – Pearl S. Buck

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone. – Charles de Gaulle

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I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator. – Emo Philips

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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. – James Russell Lowell

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There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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