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 |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. |
| Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. |
| 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. |
| Banks and donors and charities claimed to have had successes in Mozambique. I suspected they invented these successes to justify their existence, |
| Riding the Iron Rooster. |
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