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“Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.”

Paul Theroux · Travel

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Paul Theroux

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 all joy and all art.

Death

Paul Theroux

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.

Food

Paul Theroux

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

Peace

Paul Theroux

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

Loneliness