American - Novelist | April 10, 1941 -
Maine is a joy in the summer. But the soul of Maine is more apparent in the winter.
Paul Theroux
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Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.
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Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
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The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze River, that equals the Nile. We have the greatest cities in the world - among the greatest cities in the world.
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It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.
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Travel magazines are just one cupcake after another. They're not about travel. The travel magazine is, in fact, about the opposite of travel. It's about having a nice time on a honeymoon, or whatever.
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Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
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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.
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Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.
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Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent.
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Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
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The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.
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