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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.
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.
Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.... (more Paul Theroux quotes)
| Strangers Ourselves: The Adventures of Paul Theroux by John Mowat | |
| To the Ends of the Earth: The Selected Travels of Paul Theroux by Paul Theroux | |
| Biography - Theroux, Paul (1941-): An article from: Contemporary Authors Online by Gale Reference Team |