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My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#house #i #improving #leave #many

People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#few #few people #pain #people #pleasure

People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#lot #people #read #threatened #who

The moment that changed me for ever 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, of love.' ↗

— Paul Theroux

#changed #child #ever #filled #first

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#drag #howard #into #johnson #main

When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't think that is the case now. And it's a place where people still kid themselves - you know, in a few years this will happen or that will happen. Well, it's not going to happen. It's never going to happen. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#case #developing #direction #few #going

What people forget is that every movie that gets made keeps making money for somebody FOREVER. ↗

— Dave Thomas

#forever #forget #gets #keeps #made

When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#another #books #call #central #corps

When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that any great thing has happened to me. But I felt so tiny, so lost. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#any #childhood #did #ever #felt

You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#coping #find #good #hotels #i