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Paul Theroux

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I think I understand passion. Love is something else.


— 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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If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.


— Paul Theroux


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It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.


— 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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Love doesn't last.


— Paul Theroux


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


— Paul Theroux


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My greatest inspiration is memory.


— Paul Theroux


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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


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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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