Quote by Paul Theroux
When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in

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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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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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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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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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread. – Pablo Neruda

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We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us, for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions, the Children of Abraham. – King Hussein I

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Give peace a chance. – Yitzhak Rabin

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Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? Its very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way. – Benjamin Netanyahu

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I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant. – Paul Gauguin