20 ordspråk av Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux
 As Calcutta smells of death and Bombay of Money, Bangkok smells of sex, but this sexual aroma is mingled with the sharper whiffs of sex and money |
| Banks and donors and charities claimed to have had successes in Mozambique. I suspected they invented these successes to justify their existence, |
| 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. |
| Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation; and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind |
| Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us. |
| I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better |
| It is the simplest fact of Indian life: there are too many Indians |
| It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled |
| Riding the Iron Rooster. |
| The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume |
| The drug tour he had hoped would be unique, his own, ... was apparently a widely known trip down a well-traveled path, in the sort of full-color brochure that also described gorilla encounters in Africa and white-water rafting on the Ganges and treks to the Everest base camp and birding in Mongolia. |
| The kind of travel I do is a reaction to that. Instead of going to meet gorillas or Bhutan, I prefer to go [my own way] and do things the wealthy wouldn't dare to do. |
| The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity. |
| 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. |
| The train passed fruit farms and clean villages and Swiss cycling in kerchiefs, calendar scenes that you admire for a moment before feeling an urge to move on to a new month |
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This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
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