Quote by Paul Theroux
Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. - Paul Theroux

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. – Paul Theroux

Other quotes by Paul Theroux

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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Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind. – 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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Travel
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Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. Itll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that well scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we wont fly anymore. – Bruce Schneier

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And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe its time to enjoy being a star. – Vincent Cassel

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Travel

Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasnt like they had nine-to-five jobs. In that way, it wasnt a normal family life. – Georgia Jagger

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Travel

I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. – Lillian Smith

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Travel

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