Random Quote
Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time which is not to say that one must live alone obsessively.
When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call but I wrote letters I wrote short stories I wrote books.
Quotes By Paul Theroux
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Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel...
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A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere travels on the ground...
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Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.
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The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming.
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Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation and travel so...
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Tourists don't know where they've been travelers don't know where they're...
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The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.
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The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I...
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When I began to make some money I really wanted to have a home.
Quotes About Peace
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When I sing I have a sense of peace I feel like my brain turns off and I...
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The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security.
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As they say one thing led to another and ultimately the British and Irish...
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On Memorial Day I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were...
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Treaties of peace made after war are entrusted to individuals to negotiate...
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I therefore declare that if you wish any remission of the taxation which...
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President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for...
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I came here as a practical man to talk not simply on the question of peace...
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We need new partnerships in fighting terrorism and building peace.
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From 1836 down to last year there is no proof of the Government having any...