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CiteSeer: "The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity." - Paul Theroux

mathi68038: At my lowest point, when things were at their most desperate and uncomfortable, I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I'd touched bottom.,Paul Theroux,australians, humour, satire,

sen61144: There's always a way if you're not in a hurry.,Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari,hurry, travel,

khat21332: The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of being the first person in a new place.,Paul Theroux,You, Place, New ,

Philip_D_Conrad: Travel is only glamorous in retrospect. (Paul Theroux)

RichardjsS14: Literary works devoted to football teams: — Walter Scott - The Heart of Midlothian — Paul Theroux - The Family Arsenal — W. Somerset Maugham - Up at the Villa — Jonathan Meades - Pompey ...

isabeladonis: Yes. In the beginning I tried my best to write like William Faulkner but I couldn't do it. Later Paul Theroux said my writing was "Faulknerian." I don't know is it helped or hindered me as a writer.

JoyceCarolOates: sounds like Paul Theroux's "The Mosquito Coast." "discovery & fun" for Daddy is not invariably "discovery & fun" for the rest of the family. yes, Theroux may have been satirizing US bullying foreign policy as well. paternal leadership & bullying are often inextricable.

NewDoorBooks: Read your way through Boston with recommendations by Paul Theroux:

SnarkySteff: Every time I see a can of SPAM, I remember Paul Theroux’s travels through Oceania, where he muses about how all the previously cannibalistic cultures now love SPAM, leading him to make assumptions about the porcine quality that humans might have when cooked.

JimRHoughton: Reminds me of Paul Theroux's Mosquito Coast.

Philip_D_Conrad: Travel is only glamorous in retrospect. (Paul Theroux)

ShazzBakes: This is a very interesting book extract of a remarkable (not in the good way) childhood. Reminiscent slightly of Paul Theroux's The Mosquito Coast where a father takes his family away on a wild whim.

TReese82: Happy 82nd B-Day to Author Paul Theroux!

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NickOConnell9: The Figure in the Carpet: Finding pattern in stories and in your life

gtredoux: Heaven help the man who has a reminiscence written by Paul Theroux. Here Bruce Chatwin is the victim. No wonder VS Naipaul came to detest Theroux.

Philip_D_Conrad: Travel is only glamorous in retrospect. (Paul Theroux)

stevezacharanda: Ohh I'm waiting for the BBC to call for a conversation with the great Paul Theroux and I'm nervous.. Will I speak to fast. Will someone break into my room screaming for a fag or summat Will the phone work.

hunter72298: “Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.” –Paul Theroux

vagrantcow: "People don't know they're awful. They think they are nice." - Paul Theroux "David Sacks Justifies Bailout by Highlighting Elite Private Boarding School"

Philip_D_Conrad: Travel is only glamorous in retrospect. (Paul Theroux)

TelegraphTravel: As his seminal book The Old Patagonian Express is released as a collectors’ edition, the celebrated writer muses on eight decades of travel

stevezacharanda: Ohh had two diffrerent BBC producers ring up about my appearance on World Service Book Club with Paul Theroux has prepped me nicely, a lot of the audience has English as a 2nd language so I. Will. Have. To. Speak. Slowly. NotyabberonlikeadaftBrummie

AuthorShaunHolt: Started "The Kingdom by the Sea" by Paul Theroux (signed copy!), and it's quite unexpectedly a potential five star book. Also has an excellent first sentence.

mmscottwilldo: “Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.” –Paul Theroux

renner94xggtf: To the Ends of the Earth: The Selected Travels of Paul Theroux IDRBTCE

belgrlnlv: “Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.” –Paul Theroux

Philip_D_Conrad: Travel is only glamorous in retrospect. (Paul Theroux)

hamilljxvp: Riding the Rails with Paul Theroux: The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, and Ghost Train to the Eastern Star LH8P294

marome1: "desperation is often a rational for exploitation" --- Paul Theroux

five_books: Do you like to read travel books? We have interviewed some of the world’s best known travel writers, including Paul Theroux and Colin Thubron, on their favorite travel writing.

BarnabasPiper: KINDLE DEALS: 2 Paul Theroux books "Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China" is $2.99

Philip_D_Conrad: Travel is only glamorous in retrospect. (Paul Theroux)

mnyaboke39: The idea of traveling in Africa for me is based on going by road or train or bus or whatever and crossing borders. You can't travel easily or at all through some countries.,Paul Theroux,Road, Train, Me ,

Philip_D_Conrad: Travel is only glamorous in retrospect. (Paul Theroux)

domycustomessay: assignment 15697 Write 6 pages thesis on the topic the male myth by paul theroux and why boys

AndersonSanin18: I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees.,Paul Theroux,Love, Life, Children ,

MattPerret: 28. Fresh Air Fiend- Paul Theroux (1985-2000) “Nothing induces concentration like an alien landscape. It's not possible (as romantics think) to lose yourself in an exotic place; what makes whole experience thrilling is juxtaposition of present & past, Medford dreamed in Mandalay”

Philip_D_Conrad: Travel is only glamorous in retrospect. (Paul Theroux)

Tom3287: 3 of 5 stars to Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux

Anemonasc6312: I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give it life with your imagination, then what you write ought to have lasting value, no matter what the mood of your prose.,Paul Theroux,Life, Truth, Value ,

FourPhobic5836: Last days? Don't they know? These are the traits of all days, every day, everywhere.,Paul Theroux,human-nature, perspective,

Donalderse2026: Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.,Paul Theroux, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star,travel, wanderlust,

Opissroo511: There's always a way if you're not in a hurry.,Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari,hurry, travel,

Philip_D_Conrad: Travel is only glamorous in retrospect. (Paul Theroux)

Sosaxe1206: Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.,Paul Theroux,Help, Weakness, Person ,

TravelInStyle8: "The job of the travel writer is to go far and wide, to make voluminous notes, to tell the truth." - Paul Theroux

Rainberlo4661: Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.,Paul Theroux, The Great Railway Bazaar,possibili, serendipity, stories, travel, travel-writing,

Headte5670: The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.,Paul Theroux, Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town,africa, humanity, travel,

VIONAAK41481071: I have spent my life on the road waking in a pleasant, or not so pleasant hotel, and setting off every morning after breakfast hoping to discover something new and repeatable, something worth writing about.,Paul Theroux,Life, Road, Writing ,

Geomamovi2329: 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.,Paul Theroux,Food, Good, Grateful ,

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Philip_D_Conrad: Travel is only glamorous in retrospect. (Paul Theroux)

abanga6_abanga: I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist, but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.,Paul Theroux,Finding, Places, Say ,

MeowImageBot: Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation. - Paul Theroux

TomBaco16894967: Many years ago I read Riding the Iron Rooster by Paul Theroux and concluded the guy doesn't know how to travel and meet real people. When Americans travel and complain about elevators not working or lack of a McDonald's. These same people telling you about China are morons.

Philip_D_Conrad: Travel is only glamorous in retrospect. (Paul Theroux)

huoonaaliss1015: “Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.” –Paul Theroux

lourg786: "Politics seldom interested me, because there were too many sides, too many versions, too much concern with power and not enough with justice." ~ Paul Theroux, The Pillars of Hercules

lorenzogps: PAUL EDWARD THEROUX

BloodyRedBaron: "He was the worst kind of pain in the ass--a know-it-all who's sometimes right." --Paul Theroux

shibinazad: "Travel books are by their very nature dated. hat’s their fault, that they’re old fangled and it’s their virtue, that they preserve something of the past that would otherwise be lost." - Paul Theroux

Philip_D_Conrad: Travel is only glamorous in retrospect. (Paul Theroux)

PeterAWBlair: This summer we’re copying Paul Theroux and traveling from Boston to Patagonia (mostly) by train

thesmadejournal: Paul Theroux talks about his love for Mexico, road trips | DAILYMAIL TRAVEL

Philip_D_Conrad: Travel is only glamorous in retrospect. (Paul Theroux)

inaki_salinas: Paul Theroux:

Philip_D_Conrad: Travel is only glamorous in retrospect. (Paul Theroux)

discrepant: People talk about Paul Rudd but I swear Justin Theroux is the real ageless one

maaaaaa6658: “Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.” –Paul Theroux

alistairwriter: "So different from script-writing: months of pondering, talking, arguing, writing, rewriting, hoping like hell, intense work, passion... and what happens? Rejection, oblivion. You could tell the same story a hundred times over." - Letter from Paul Theroux to Nicolas Roeg

NickOConnell9: Character is Fate:

aboodi2001510: “Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.” –Paul Theroux

Philip_D_Conrad: Travel is only glamorous in retrospect. (Paul Theroux)

DuhawkQB8: "Winter is a season of recovery and preparation". - Paul Theroux Amor Fati.

davidfrum: "Take it on the chin and move on." - VS Naipaul's advice to Paul Theroux

Philip_D_Conrad: Travel is only glamorous in retrospect. (Paul Theroux)

SistersPress: Paul Theroux and JP Donleavy bookmark, watercolor, graphite, ink, December 2023 and February 2023.

SistersPress: Paul Theroux and JP Donleavy bookmark, watercolor, graphite, ink, December 2022 and February 2023.

SistersPress: Paul Theroux and JP Donleavy bookmark, watercolor, graphite, ink, December 2022 and February 2023.

Philip_D_Conrad: Travel is only glamorous in retrospect. (Paul Theroux)

YudhaBAP: The moment that changed me forever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought. ‘Now I understand the whole point of work, of life and of love. [Paul Theroux].

welfordwrites: Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. Paul Theroux

theostibes: "I was just an onlooker, gaping at public events that did not involve me." Paul Theroux

welfordwrites: The man who is tired of London is tired of looking for a parking space. Paul Theroux

Philip_D_Conrad: Travel is only glamorous in retrospect. (Paul Theroux)

unherd: Before he became one of our great travel writers, Jonathan Raban told me: “I hate travel" | Paul Theroux

five_books: Do you like to read travel books? We have interviewed some of the world’s best known travel writers, including Paul Theroux and Colin Thubron, on their favorite travel writing.

MarjoleinBastin: "Winter is a season of recovery and preparation." Paul Theroux

HWBMan: A while back, I wrote about Season One's relationship with the Paul Theroux novel and the 1986 Harrison Ford film adaptation for CrimeReads.

JonMichaud: "I feel diminished by his death. There’s no one else now. Such friends are irreplaceable." A moving tribute to Joanathan Raban by Paul Theroux.

unherd: "A week or so before he died, Jonathan Raban sent me an email" | Paul Theroux

Philip_D_Conrad: Travel is only glamorous in retrospect. (Paul Theroux)

unherd: Jonathan Raban was my first reader, responding to my manuscripts quicker than any editor | Paul Theroux

unherd: Travel bewitched Jonathan Raban, curing him of his restlessness | Paul Theroux

huoonaaliss1015: “Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.” –Paul Theroux

armadill2010: Travel is only glamorous in retrospect. (Paul Theroux)

gboukzi: Instructive to note that this documentary was released in October 2010 - the guy guy here, “Mamo”, who is acting as Louis Theroux’s chaperone is now dead; he was killed in one of the NURTW inter-faction fights. A lot of the people shown in the docu are also dead

aaaawells: Started this last night. It’s a fascinating read. In the style of Tony Horwitz and Paul Theroux’s works on the southern states, it illustrates a region that is complex and difficult to define.

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