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Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.

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American - Novelist Born: April 10, 1941

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

Winter is a season of recovery and preparation. Paul Theroux

Winter, Preparation, Season

I am happy being what I am. Paul Theroux

Happy, I Am, I Am Happy

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

Mind, Grace, Hawaii

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

Solitude, Isolation, Lonely

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, Travel, Home

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

Story, Hong Kong, Once

The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people, an exotic place. Certainly finding a place that you like or discovering something unusual is a very sustaining thing in travel. Paul Theroux

Travel, Home, People

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

Travel, Best, You

I'm not pessimistic about Africa. The cities just seem big and hopeless. But there's still a great green heart where there's possibility. There's hope in the wilderness. Paul Theroux

Hope, Great, Heart

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

Friendship, Help, Weakness

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

World, Live, People

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

Travel, Know, Where

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed. Paul Theroux

Geography, Place, Island

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. Paul Theroux

Travel, Glamorous, Only

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

Love, Life, Art

My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because islands are small self-contained worlds that can help us understand larger ones. Paul Theroux

Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was not a factor - no one made very much except from U.S. sales and the occasional windfall. Paul Theroux

Life, Money, Sales

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

Life, Me, People

A travel book is a book that puts you in the shoes of the traveler, and it's usually a book about having a very bad time; having a miserable time, even better. Paul Theroux

Travel, Time, Shoes

My earliest thought, long before I was in high school, was just to go away, get out of my house, get out of my city. I went to Medford High School, but even in grade school and junior high, I fantasized about leaving. Paul Theroux

School, City, Leaving

One of my fears is not writing. I don't know how to do anything else. Paul Theroux

Writing, Know, Anything

If you look at a map, you see that Hawaii is in the middle of nowhere. It's 17 hours of straight flying from London. It's very far away, and sometimes you feel as if you're on another planet. But I like that. Also, that's ideal for writing. Paul Theroux

Writing, Flying, Hawaii

My record was so bad that I was first rejected by the Peace Corps as a poor risk and possible troublemaker and was accepted as a volunteer only after a great deal of explaining and arguing. Paul Theroux

Peace, Great, Risk

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

Life, Journey, Road

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

Great, Short, Destination

Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation. Paul Theroux

Language, Conversation, Long

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