Quote by Paul Theroux
If youre a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers

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

Other quotes by Paul Theroux

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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alone
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The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriates career. He can either forget it, or capitalize on it. Most choose the latter. – Paul Theroux

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Exile
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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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Home
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A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it. – Don Fraser

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Home

Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff. – Emeril Lagasse

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Home

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. Youll find what you need to furnish it – memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. – Tad Williams

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Home

The home is the chief school of human virtues. – William Ellery Channing

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Home

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