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Paul Theroux Quotes

Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Fiction Us Chances Second

Well, he's just the same guy who in other aspects of his life would be very late to a trend.

Life Late Same Guy Well Trend

I lived in a bad neighborhood. I knew so many things a boy shouldn't know. I did so many things a boy shouldn't do.

Bad Know Boy Lived Neighborhood Did

'Toast of London' is a must-watch. Matt Berry's off-the-wall humour is slightly surreal and a little bit deviant. That's why I also love 'House of Fools.'

Love House Fools Why London Humour

Obviously, people who commit crimes should be punished. Even people who steal socks and 'Snow White' videos should probably do time if they have priors, especially serious priors. But the punishment has to fit the crime, and the standard has to be the same for everyone.

Snow Time People White Socks Crime

There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start.

Stephen Hopkins

Start Choice Audience Made Attempt

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?

Excellence Woman Luxury House Ever

There's an undeniable tradition of sexism in this country that ties into the move westward by people of European descent and different ways of looking at Manifest Destiny on the west side of the Mississippi River.

Tommy Lee Jones

River People Looking Destiny Country

If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals.

Strength Goals Power Decision Reach

One of the big mistakes Republicans made with the Contract with America is that they tried to do too much too fast, and people revolted against it.

Mistakes People America Too Much Big

You have to be able to carry a conversation. I think after the initial attraction kind of dies down. The lust dies down. There has to be the thing that engages you.

Think You Conversation Down Lust

I want to go to college and go back to Georgetown. It's a really cool place.

College Cool Back Place Go Want

There's nothing wrong with anybody from any other country having a perspective on the British royal family. It would be interesting. But I just doubt that they would get the dialogue right.

Family Perspective Interesting Doubt

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