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Paul Theroux
Data di nascita: 10. Aprile 1941
Altri nomi:Paul Edward Theroux
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Paul Theroux è uno scrittore statunitense.
Frasi Paul Theroux
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„The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown..“
— Paul Theroux, The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road
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„You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.“
— Paul Theroux, Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
„Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way“
— Paul Theroux, Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents
„Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. Once of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.“
— Paul Theroux, The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
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„travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.“
— Paul Theroux, The Great Railway Bazaar
„The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.“
— Paul Theroux, Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
„.. luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you and prevents you from knowing the world. That is its purpose, the reason why luxury cruises and great hotels are full of fatheads who, when they express an opinion, seem as though they are from another planet. It was also my experience that one of the worst aspects of travelling with wealthy people, apart from the fact that the rich never listen, is that they constantly groused about the high cost of living – indeed, the rich usually complained of being poor.“
— Paul Theroux, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
