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Paul Theroux - From the Eroticism category:
- Hotel Honolulu, (ch. 1) ...
Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death. (Paul Theroux)
Paul Theroux - From the Expectation category:
Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing. (Paul Theroux)
Paul Theroux - From the Friendship category:
Writers are painful friends, and they are seldom friendly with others. They are insecure in the presence of other writers. Composers of certain kinds of music are the same--tormented and intolerant. Yet some arts not only make the artist social but make him depend upon sociability in order to succeed. Painting is one. (Paul Theroux)
Paul Theroux - From the Friendship category:
Painters strike me as having warm uncomplicated friendships and probably more natural generosity than the practitioners of any other art. Perhaps this is because painting is such a portable, flexible thing. (Paul Theroux)
Paul Theroux - From the Grace category:
Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace. (Paul Theroux)
Paul Theroux - From the Journey category:
Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. (Paul Theroux)
Paul Theroux - From the Life category:
Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art. (Paul Theroux)
Paul Theroux - From the Money category:
It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled. (Paul Theroux)
Paul Theroux - From the Painting category:
Painters paint outdoors, or in rooms full of people; they paint their lovers, alone, naked; they paint and eat; they paint and listen to the radio. It is a soothing way of doing your job. (Paul Theroux)
Paul Theroux - From the Reality category:
Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us. (Paul Theroux)
Paul Theroux - From the Time category:
I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better. (Paul Theroux)
Paul Theroux - From the Travel category:
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind. (Paul Theroux)
Paul Theroux - From the Writing category:
Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves. (Paul Theroux)
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