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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

#crash #define #flight #food #get

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#denies #fiction #gives #life #second

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#contracts #extensive #feeling #first #induces

I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#i #idea #isolation #like #lonely

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#good manners #indistinguishable #japanese #made #manners

There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#african #annoying #being #cowboy #cowboy hat

Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#conversation #could #decent #fairly #fluent

Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#denies #fiction #gives #life #second

The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#gets #given #often #pleasure #reader

I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With me, though, the happier I feel, the better I write. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#better #domestic #even #feel #happier