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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

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I think that love isn't what you think it is when you're in your twenties or even thirties. ↗

— Paul Theroux

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I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read. ↗

— Paul Theroux

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It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources. ↗

— Paul Theroux

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Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketing, and generally less congenial - but my day is the same: get out of bed, procrastinate, sit down at my desk, try to write something. ↗

— Paul Theroux

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Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. 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

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Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions. ↗

— Paul Theroux

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

— Paul Theroux

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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

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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

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