American - Novelist | April 10, 1941 -
The place that interests me most, actually, is the United States. I've realized that I haven't traveled much in the States. There's a lot to see.
Paul Theroux
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The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people, an exotic place. Certainly finding a place that you like or discovering something unusual is a very sustaining thing in travel.
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Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.
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The Trans-Siberian Express is like a cruise across an oceanic landscape. I've done it three times.
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I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble.
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You need to be on your own so that you can meet people as you are, and as they are.
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My earliest thought, long before I was in high school, was just to go away, get out of my house, get out of my city. I went to Medford High School, but even in grade school and junior high, I fantasized about leaving.
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There are places that I've always wanted to go. First I went to Africa, and when I was there I realized there were places in Africa I really to wanted to visit: The Congo, West Africa, Mombassa. I wanted to see the deep, dark, outlandish places.
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I've never spent a whole year in one place without leaving.
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People see a hungry face, and they want to feed it; that's a natural response.
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I do not want to be young again.
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Many small towns I know in Maine are as tight-knit and interdependent as those I associate with rural communities in India or China; with deep roots and old loyalties, skeptical of authority, they are proud and inflexibly territorial.
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