Quote by Paul Theroux
A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. Its not about inventing. – Paul Theroux

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When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa I didnt make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didnt make a phone call. So for six years I didnt make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books. – Paul Theroux

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Peace
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Tourists dont know where theyve been, travelers dont know where theyre going. – Paul Theroux

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Travel
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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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Were all dealt with the same hand here, so to speak. I feel like Ive had it a lot better than most people. Ive had the opportunity to travel and play music all my life. – Levon Helm

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Strange, is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passd the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road Which to discover we must travel too. – Edward Fitzgerald

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Travel

I love to travel. Im a curious person. – Hilary Swank

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Travel

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole. – William S. Burroughs

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