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In travel, as in many other experiences in life, once is usually enough.
~ Paul Theroux ~
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In travel, as in many other experiences in life, once is usually enough.
More Paul Theroux quotes
"The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my l...
"I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little chil...
"...luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes yo...
"Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
"If I read enough about one country I sometimes found that the intensity of the reading removed by desire to travel there.
"Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
"Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of al...
"What draws me in is that a trip is a leap in the dark. It's like a metaphor for life. You set off from home, and in the classic travel book, you go to...
"I have spent my life on the road waking in a pleasant, or not so pleasant hotel, and setting off every morning after breakfast hoping to discover some...
"Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it. Those whistle...
"I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give it life with your imagination, then what you ...
"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...
"The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.
"What I remembered most clearly about this Jinja road was that on portions of it, for reasons no one could explain, butterflies settled in long fluffy ...