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«Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.»
Author: Paul Theroux (Novelist, Writer) | About: Travel | Keywords: tourists, travelers
«Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.»
Author: Paul Theroux (Novelist, Writer) | About: Travel | Keywords: glamorous, retrospect
«Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.»
Author: Paul Theroux (Novelist, Writer) | About: Chance | Keywords: denies, fiction, Second Chance
«The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume»
«It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled»
«Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation; and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind»
«You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.»
«The train passed fruit farms and clean villages and Swiss cycling in kerchiefs, calendar scenes that you admire for a moment before feeling an urge to move on to a new month»
«I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better»
«It is the simplest fact of Indian life: there are too many Indians»

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