Paul Theroux Quotes

Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in. - Paul Theroux

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. - Paul Theroux

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. - Paul Theroux

There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment. - Paul Theroux

The train passed fruit farms and clean villages and Swiss cycling in kerchiefs, calendar scenes that you admire for a moment before feeling an urge to move on to a new month. - Paul Theroux

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

The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given. - Paul Theroux

The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do. - Paul Theroux

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity. - Paul Theroux

The more you write, the more you're capable of writing. - Paul Theroux

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