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Paul Theroux Quotes

I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 10, 1941

Topics

Solitude Isolation Lonely You Phone

If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.

Yourself You Want See Error Set

Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.

Sometimes Happen Something Got Going

It's really hard to escape where you were brought up. Not that I would ever want to escape it.

You Want Escape Hard Up Where

Successful crimes alone are justified.

Alone Successful Justified Crimes

No matter what I do, I always come home to my blog.

Home Matter Always Come Blog

I can't really write anything without knowing the ending. I don't know how people do that. Even with my superhero stuff, I have to know at least where I want to take the characters and what the ending of my story with them will be. I just can't structure stories or character arcs and stuff without knowing the endpoint.

Character People Ending Story Know

When you've toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you're always waiting for somebody or something. The whole day is a drag.

Ritchie Blackmore

Day Waiting Me End You Feeling

I have always been communicative. I can't help it if I have been misunderstood. Sometimes, people don't like straight answers.

Mohammad Azharuddin

People Help Sometimes Misunderstood

This genre of music seems to want to push people into a certain time slot, which is unfortunate.

Music Time People Push Want Seems

'Stupidity' defines the mental state wherein we acknowledge that we've never been smarter as individuals and yet somehow we've never felt stupider. We now collectively inhabit a state of stupidity.

Douglas Coupland

Stupidity Now Never Mental Been

I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.

Christine Baranski

Eyes Violence Because Close Tolerate

When I switched to screenplays - 'cause I had done musicals and plays - the first assignment in film school was, you have to write a silent film. And it's tremendously helpful to learn how to do that because dialogue can be a crutch. If you can master a silent film, you're golden.

Allison Schroeder

School Learn You Done Silent Golden

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