Frasi di Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux
Data di nascita: 10. Aprile 1941
Altri nomi: Paul Edward Theroux
Paul Theroux è uno scrittore statunitense.
Frasi Paul Theroux
„Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.“
New York Times (July 28, 1976).
„Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.“
“Paul Theroux, Restless Writer Of the Rails“ by Paul Hendrickson, Washington Post (September 20, 1979).
„I think most serious and omnivorous readers are alike- intense in their dedication to the word, quiet-minded, but relieved and eagerly talkative when they meet other readers and kindred spirits.“
— Paul Theroux, libro Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
Origine: Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
„Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way“
Origine: Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents
„Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.“
— Paul Theroux, libro Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
Origine: Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
„travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.“
— Paul Theroux, libro The Great Railway Bazaar
Origine: The Great Railway Bazaar
„The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.“
Origine: Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
„You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back“
Variante: You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.
Origine: Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
„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.“
Hockney’s Alphabet, D is for Death, ed. Stephen Spender (1991)
Book published to raise money for AIDS victims.
„The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson’s on the main drag into maturity.“
Sunrise with Seamonsters (1985).
„The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate’s career. He can either forget it, or capitalize on it. Most choose the latter.“
Tarzan Is an Expatriate, quoted in Patrick Marnham's Dispatches from Africa, ch. 1 (1981).
„I have always disliked being a man. The whole idea of manhood in America is pitiful, in my opinion. This version of masculinity is a little like having to wear an ill-fitting coat for one's entire life (by contrast, I imagine femininity to be an oppressive sense of nakedness).“
"Being a Man" (1983), from Sunrise with Seamonsters: Travels and Discoveries, 1964-84 (Houghton Mifflin, 1986, , 384 pages), p. 309.
