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Paul Theroux

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Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.


— Paul Theroux


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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


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


— Paul Theroux


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The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.


— Paul Theroux


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I don't think I've ever seen a person having a serious conversation on a cellphone. It's like a kiddie thing, a complete time waster.


— Paul Theroux


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I am happy being what I am.


— Paul Theroux


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Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.


— Paul Theroux


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Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us.


— Paul Theroux


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A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.


— Paul Theroux


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


— Paul Theroux


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About Paul Theroux

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Did you know about Paul Theroux?

His novel The Mosquito Coast was made into a film of the same name (1986). While there Theroux helped a political opponent of Prime Minister Hastings Banda escape to Uganda. He has since written a number of other travel books including descriptions of traveling by train from Boston to Argentina (The Old Patagonian Express) walking around the United Kingdom (The Kingdom By The Sea) kayaking in the South Pacific (The Happy Isles Of Oceania) visiting China (Riding the Iron Rooster) and traveling from Cairo to Cape Town (Dark Star Safari).

He is the father of British authors and documentary makers Louis Theroux and Marcel Theroux the brother of authors Alexander Theroux and Peter Theroux and uncle to the American actor and screenwriter Justin Theroux. Paul Edward Theroux (born April 10 1941) is an American travel writer and novelist whose best known work of travel writing is perhaps The Great Railway Bazaar (1975).

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