A British traveler remarked, 'There are [fashions in Guatemala] which it would require more than common charity to speak of with respect...'"

FILL IN YOUR OWN GRIPES! ;-)

Paul Theroux

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I guessed it was a migratory bird, too innocent to be wary of the spiders in the jungle grass. It worried be to think that we were a little like that bird

Paul Theroux

Mots clés dystopic-fiction

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Unless there is a strong sense of place there is no travel writing, but it need not come from topographical description; dialogue can also convey a sense of place. Even so, I insist, the traveler invents the place. Feeling compelled to comment on my travel books, people say to me, "I went there"---China, India, the Pacific, Albania-- "and it wasn't like that." I say, "Because I am not you.

Paul Theroux

Mots clés experience travel perceptions

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Death rephrases the life of everyone who's near.

Paul Theroux

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One thinks one is going to the tropics and one finds oneself in the Chinese version of Welwyn Garden City.

Paul Theroux

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Mimicry reassures the weak, and the envious fool takes the risk as often as the visionary who mocks the error and leave the man alone.

Paul Theroux

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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

Mots clés home change travel gone

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I am a book-collector, a proud avocationist in what Eric Quayle (wrongly) asserts to be the "least vicious" of hobbies (we are quite savage). We collectors are puzzled and often piqued unpleasantly by the common, absurd notion whereby we are only a pack of myopic, semi-crazed old pedants fretting over a book's colophon, dull dogs full of humorless zeal and no conversation, who suck our fingers free of pounce.

Paul Theroux

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The topography of literature, the fact in fiction,is one of my pleasures -- I mean, where the living road enters the pages of a book, and you are able to stroll along both the real and imagined road.

Paul Theroux

Mots clés geography literature place topography

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As for the sanctimony of people who seem blind to the fact that mass murder is still an annual event, look at Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur, Tibet, Burma and elsewhere-the truer shout is not "Never again" but "Again and again.

Paul Theroux

Mots clés murder genocide

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