Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.

Paul Theroux Quotes

American - Novelist Born: April 10, 1941

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 an unknown place. You discover a different world, and you discover yourself. Paul Theroux

Life, Book, Different World

Winter is a season of recovery and preparation. - Paul Theroux

Winter is a season of recovery and preparation. Paul Theroux

Winter, Recovery, Season

There are two worlds: the world of the tourist and the world of everyone else. Often they're side by side. But the tourist doesn't actually see how people live. Paul Theroux

Side, Worlds, Everyone Else

Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace. Paul Theroux

Mind, Grace, Hawaii

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing. Paul Theroux

Never, Will, Asked

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. Paul Theroux

Travel, Going, Been

Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us. Paul Theroux

Chances, Second Chances

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

Love, Work, Thought

I wanted the Peace Corps to be something very vague and unorganized, and to a large extent it was. It did not run smoothly. The consequence was that we were left alone. Paul Theroux

Vague, Extent, Very

I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels. Paul Theroux

Habits, Stack, Pile

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I am happy being what I am. Paul Theroux

Happy, I Am Happy, I Am

Maine is a joy in the summer. But the soul of Maine is more apparent in the winter. Paul Theroux

Soul, Joy, Maine

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 children under the palm trees. Paul Theroux

Love, New, Little Children

I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better. Paul Theroux

Better, Strive, Longer

Many small towns I know in Maine are as tight-knit and interdependent as those I associate with rural communities in India or China; with deep roots and old loyalties, skeptical of authority, they are proud and inflexibly territorial. Paul Theroux

Deep, Small, Rural

I don't look down on tourism. I live in Hawaii where we have 7 million visitors a year. If they weren't there, there would be no economy. So I understand why a tourist economy is necessary. Paul Theroux

Hawaii, Year, Necessary

What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life. Paul Theroux

People, Whole, About

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

Mind, Traveling, Extensive

Travel magazines are just one cupcake after another. They're not about travel. The travel magazine is, in fact, about the opposite of travel. It's about having a nice time on a honeymoon, or whatever. Paul Theroux

Fact, Having, Another

People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write three pages about how long it took them to get a visa. I'm not interested in the boring parts. Everyone has tummy trouble. Everyone waits in line. I don't want to hear about it. Paul Theroux

Waiting, Wait, Bus

I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely. Paul Theroux

Connected, Still, Like

A journey awakens all our old fears of danger and risk. Your life is on the line. You are living by your own resources; you have to find your own way and solve every problem on the road. Paul Theroux

Journey, Living, Old

The idea of traveling in Africa for me is based on going by road or train or bus or whatever and crossing borders. You can't travel easily or at all through some countries. Paul Theroux

Bus, Through, Based

Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories. Paul Theroux

Intrigue, Stories, Russian

Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. Paul Theroux

Maine, Elbow, Crystals

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. Paul Theroux

Travel, Grateful, Flight

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