Quote by Paul Theroux
The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnsons on the main drag into

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnsons on the main drag into maturity. – Paul Theroux

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You define a good flight by negatives: you didnt get hijacked, you didnt crash, you didnt throw up, you werent late, you werent nauseated by the food. So you are grateful. – Paul Theroux

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Food
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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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Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind. – Paul Theroux

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Peace
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. – Golda Meir

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Peace

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides. – Ariel Sharon

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Peace

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein. – John Major

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Peace

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict – alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. – Dorothy Thompson

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Peace

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We have a close, unshakable bond between the United States and Israel, and between the American and Israeli people. We share common values and a commitment to a democratic future for the world, and we are both committed to a two-state solution. But that doesnt mean that were going to agree. – Hillary Clinton

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Future

Two things are owed to truthfulness — lasting marriages and short friendships. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Marriage

I would rather exercise than read a newspaper. – Kim Alexis

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fitness

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour. – Theodore Gericault

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Imagination