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I am happy being what I am.

I am happy being what I am. Paul Theroux

Happy, I Am, I Am Happy

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

Winter is a season of recovery and preparation. Paul Theroux

Recovery, Winter, Season

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

Grace, Mind, Hawaii

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 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, Like, Still

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

Travel, Going, Been

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

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation. Paul Theroux

Help, Liking, Exploitation

When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books. Paul Theroux

Two, Years, Another

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

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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, Another, Having

I believe I have a sunny disposition, and am not naturally a grouch. It takes a lot of optimism, after all, to be a traveler. Paul Theroux

Optimism, Believe, Traveler

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

Soul, Joy, Maine

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

The more you write, the more you're capable of writing. Paul Theroux

Writing, Capable, More

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 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

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

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

Better, Strive, Longer

The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who don't want to travel. Paul Theroux

Curiosity, Want, Understand

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

Never, Will, Asked

When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there. Paul Theroux

Hong Kong, Set, Wanted

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

Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions. Paul Theroux

Late, Bad, Very

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

Chances, Second Chances

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled. Paul Theroux

Lonely, Principled

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