Creative Quotations from . . .
Paul Theroux
(1941-____) born on Apr 10
US novelist. "He wrote "Picture Palace," 1978 and a best-selling travel yarn "Kingdom by the Sea," 1983."
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F
The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

R
"Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind."
A
Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
N
I should have worked just long enough to discover that I didn't like it.
K
"The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate's career. He can either forget it, or capitalize on it. Most choose the latter."
 
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Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""Sunrise with Seamonsters," 1984."
R: ""The Great Railway Bazaar," ch. 21, 1975."
A: "In NY "Times," 28 Jul 1976."
N: "In "The Observer Magazine," 1 Apr 1979."
K: ""Tarzan Is an Expatriate." In: Patrick Marnham, Dispatches from Africa, ch. 1, 1981."
   



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