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Paul Theroux Quotes

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.

Paul Theroux

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good Great Sleep Night Short Train

We all have a cross to carry. I have to carry my own cross. If we don't carry our crosses, we are going to be crushed under the weight of it.

Jim Caviezel

My Own Carry Own Going Weight Cross

Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home.

John Abizaid

Home Language Army Understand Never

When my record company rejected 'Full Moon Fever', I was hurt so bad. I was pretty far along in my career at that point. I'd never had anything rejected; I'd never really even had a comment. So when that happened, it was really just a board to the forehead. But then, finally, I picked myself up.

Tom Petty

Myself Moon Hurt Bad Career Never

Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.

Robert Anton Wilson

Process Universe Beyond Point Whole

My birth at the end of July 1967 makes me a child of the naksa, or setback, as the Arab defeat during the June 1967 war with Israel is euphemistically known in Arabic.

Mona Eltahawy

War Child Me End Defeat Birth

Veterans have stood up for us.

Lois Frankel

Veterans Up Us Stood

People tell you not to work with children and animals, and I chose to work with a 7-year-old and several dinosaurs!

Jason O'Mara

Work Children People You Animals

Every day is intense and alive, whether it's travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of.

Josh Lucas

Work Time Day Travel Every Day Down

Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do.

Diane Wakoski

Women Power Poetry Care Political

The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.

Bob Woodward

Political Cloud Doubt Never Remain

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Thomas Jefferson

Life Good Happiness Government Care

When our customer leaves Urban Outfitters, the Main Line is the type of place where more of them go than don't.

Richard Hayne

Customer Place Go More Line Urban