Famous Quotes / Paul Theroux
9 Quotations by Paul Theroux
- 1. Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with su ...
- 2. Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contract ...
- 3. Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
- 4. Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.
- 5. The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.
- 6. The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in t ...
- 7. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
- 8. Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.
- 9. You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw u ...