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Paul Theroux Quotes

I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist, but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Travel Finding Say Places Background

We have an extensive system of highways, ports, locks and dams, and airports.

System Locks Dams Ports Highways

I think the thing that I find the most difficult to talk about is religion.

Religion Think Find Talk Difficult

I'm in Delta Delta Delta, otherwise known as Tri-Delta. I've developed some great friendships, and it's enabled me to have a little bit more of a normal college experience.

Great Experience College Me More

For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people.

Simon Wiesenthal

People Law Learn Tragedy Next Must

The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired.

Time Process Flow Same Side Twisted

When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a private club because of my experience as a child, because it would isolate me from the whole of humanity.

Experience Child Me Humanity Country

If you go up on a mountain and scream about change, you better make sure you're ready for people to come.

Change Mountain People Better You

I was tormented with guilt for years and years. In fact, it was so bad that if I didn't feel wrong, I didn't feel right!

Feel Guilt Bad Wrong Right Years

Most people call my style of dress slovenly, I call it extreme casual. If I didn't have a mother and a sister for the times I do have to get dressed, I would be absolutely lost.

Mother Style Dress People Sister

The fans own the records and listen to them and love them. It becomes the soundtrack to some part of their lives, and we don't control that. To me, that's what's exciting about what we do.

Love Me Control Listen Own Fans

I myself am going to try to tone down some of my rhetoric, and I would invite my Democrat friends - and they are friends - to do likewise.

Myself Friends Down Rhetoric Try

Congress continues to pass laws to limit lobbyists' influence, but people find ways to get around them.

People Influence Find Congress Limit

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