"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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"Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going."
-Paul Theroux
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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."
-Paul Theroux
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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.'"
-Paul Theroux
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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."
-Paul Theroux
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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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"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
-Charles Spurgeon
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"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls."
-Anais Nin
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"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."
-Oscar Wilde
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"Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels."
-Nikos Kazantzakis
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"The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."
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"Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed."
-Howard Nemerov
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