"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."
-Paul Theroux
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"If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.“
-Paul Theroux
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"Travel is glamorous only in retrospect."
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"Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going."
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"The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do."
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"The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'"
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"Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. 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."
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"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."
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"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."
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"The home is the chief school of human virtues."
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"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."
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"My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world."
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