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"Photographers are failed painters."
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Paul TherouxYou define a good flight by negatives: you didn’t get hijacked, you di — Paul Theroux
"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."
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Paul Edward Theroux is an American novelist and travel writer who has written numerous books, including the travelogue The Great Railway Bazaar (1975). Some of his works of fiction have been adapted as feature films. He was awarded the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel The Mosquito Coast, which was adapted for the 1986 movie of the same name and the 2021 television series of the s
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"Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us."
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"The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson’s on the main drag into maturity."
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"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 ones entire life (by contrast, I imagine femininity to be an oppressive sense of nakedness)."
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"Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace."
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"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."
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