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

-Paul Theroux

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Paul Theroux quote about peace: "The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity."

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"A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing."

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

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"The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming."

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"Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind."

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"Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out."

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"I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace."

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