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It is almost axiomatic that as soon as a place gets a reputation for being paradise it goes to hell.


Paul Theroux

It is almost axiomatic that as soon as a place gets a reputation for being paradise it goes to hell. - Paul Theroux
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Paul Theroux

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You go away for a long time and return a different person – you never come all the way back.


Paul Theroux

You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back. - Paul Theroux
Travel quotes by Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux

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It is a good thing that people don’t know where you are or how to find you.


Paul Theroux

It is a good thing that people don't know where you are or how to find you. - Paul Theroux
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Paul Theroux

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He did not think of himself as a tourist; he was a traveler.


Paul Theroux

He did not think of himself as a tourist; he was a traveler. - Paul Theroux
Travel quotes by Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux

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After a man has made a large amount of money he becomes a bad listener and an impatient tourist.


Paul Theroux

After a man has made a large amount of money he becomes a bad listener and an impatient tourist. - Paul Theroux
Travel quotes by Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux

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The nearest thing to writing a novel is traveling in a strange landscape.


Paul Theroux

The nearest thing to writing a novel is traveling in a strange landscape. - Paul Theroux
Travel quotes by Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux

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While the tourist usually hurried back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler, belonging no more to one place than the rest, moves slowly, over periods of years, from one part of the Earth to another.


Paul Theroux

While the tourist usually hurried back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler, belonging no more to one place than the rest, moves slowly, over periods of years, from one part of the Earth to another. - Paul Theroux
Travel quotes by Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux

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Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers. Putting yourself into the hands of people you don’t know and trusting them with your life.


Paul Theroux

Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers. Putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life. - Paul Theroux
Travel quotes by Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux

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Travel is not a vacation, and is often the opposite of a rest.


Paul Theroux

Travel is not a vacation, and is often the opposite of a rest. - Paul Theroux
Travel quotes by Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux

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Some travel is more of a nuisance than a hardship, but travel is always a mental challenge, and even at its most difficult, travel can be an enlightenment.


Paul Theroux

Some travel is more of a nuisance than a hardship, but travel is always a mental challenge, and even at its most difficult, travel can be an enlightenment. - Paul Theroux
Travel quotes by Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux

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Travel holds the magical possibility of reinvention; that you might find a place you love. To begin a new life and never go home.


Paul Theroux

Travel holds the magical possibility of reinvention; that you might find a place you love. To begin a new life and never go home. - Paul Theroux
Travel quotes by Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux

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When strangers ask me where I was going I often replied, ‘Nowhere.’ Vagueness can become habit and travel a form of idleness.


Paul Theroux

When strangers ask me where I was going I often replied, 'Nowhere.' Vagueness can become habit and travel a form of idleness. - Paul Theroux
Travel quotes by Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux

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