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“Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.”

“Paul Theroux, Restless Writer Of the Rails“ by Paul Hendrickson, Washington Post (September 20, 1979).

“travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.”

Paul Theroux kniha The Great Railway Bazaar

Zdroj: The Great Railway Bazaar

“The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.”

Zdroj: Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

“You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back”

Varianta: You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.
Zdroj: Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

“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.”

Hockney’s Alphabet, D is for Death, ed. Stephen Spender (1991)
Book published to raise money for AIDS victims.

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

Paul Theroux kniha The Great Railway Bazaar

Zdroj: The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), Ch. 28.

“I sought trains; I found passengers.”

Paul Theroux kniha The Great Railway Bazaar

Zdroj: The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), Ch. 1.

“Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.”

Paul Theroux kniha The Great Railway Bazaar

Zdroj: The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), Ch. 21.

“Photographers are failed painters.”

Picture Palace (1978)

“Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control.”

Living With Geese http://smithsonianmag.com/issues/2006/december/geese.php?page=1, Smithsonian Magazine (December 2006).

“Tightfisted people are as mean with friendship as they are with cash--suspicious, unbelieving, and incurious.”

Paul Theroux kniha The Old Patagonian Express

Chapter 5 http://books.google.com/books?id=vrtURNBqzRMC&q=%22Tightfisted+people+are+as+mean+with+friendship+as+they+are+with+cash+suspicious+unbelieving+and+incurious%22&pg=PA94#v=onepage, The Passenger Train to Tapachula
The Old Patagonian Express (1979)