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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Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. Its also about mutual help, not about exploitation. – Paul Theroux

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Friendship
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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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In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945. – Queen Elizabeth II

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Peace, of course, is different from divorce indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace. – Douglas Feith

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If you remember you just have one constituent, and thats God himself, and if you try to please him I think you usually come with a lot steadier pace and a lot more peace in your life. – Jim DeMint

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Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. – Buddha

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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. – Proverb

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The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens. – Author Unknown

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Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, theyll just have to learn how to be babies longer. – Andy Warhol

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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. – Oscar Wilde

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