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Paul Theroux Quotes

Because of my capacity for listening to strangers' tales, or the details of their lives, my patience with their food and their crotchets, my curiosity that borders on nosiness, I am told that anyone traveling with me experiences an unbelievable tedium, and this is why I choose to travel alone.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Patience Alone Food Travel I Am Me

I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick.

I Am Research Sick Someone Play Say

I got married for the wrong reasons. I was tired of being alone. I have to own that. It was me, not her.

Alone Tired Being Alone Me Wrong

Having a better and more productive life than my monster father has been my most significant accomplishment.

Life Father Accomplishment Better

The older you get, the more you start to realize that you can't win an argument in a relationship. You can't win a fight with your woman. Because if you lose, you lose. And if you win, you lose.

Relationship Woman Fight Win Start

For me, there is a paradox in poetry, which is like the paradox in tragedy. You have the most terrible subject, but it's in a form that is so sensually gratifying that it connects the surviving heart to the despairing intellect.

Heart Poetry Me You Tragedy Paradox

Technically, I've been retired for some time now. All I ever do is occasionally write songs for friends, such as one, for a friend who had just turned 80. I wrote a song for him called, The First 80 Years are The Hardest.

Friend Time Song Friends Now First

I would love to give you a more in-depth coherent explanation of my view of the soul, and if I had one I would. The soul and my concept of it are as ephemeral as anybody's, and possibly more so.

Love Soul View You More Give

I always wanted to be an actor. It's something I always secretly wanted. You know, I had the experience of being picked on as a child, and I would tell people, 'You're gonna be sorry when I'm famous!' And then I learned after they kicked the stuffing out me that you don't say that out loud.

Experience Child People Me Sorry

I really think that Steven Caple, Jr. is going to be a great addition to the 'Rocky' director pantheon.

Cheo Hodari Coker

Great Think Director Going Addition

I have a preponderance to look smug in photos; something to do with the way my mouth turns up at the corners.

Mouth Look Way Up Something Smug

Negotiating with the Taliban must be done from a position of strength. Negotiating from a position of weakness would be a disaster.

Strength Weakness Done Disaster Must

We run Android in a very open way and work closely with all partners. We work with Samsung, and I spend a lot of time with them. But we've always supported other partners.

Work Time Run Way Always Open

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