Paul Theroux Quotes
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In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories.
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I would do anything and I will continue to do anything I can to stop the train wreck that is Obamacare.
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I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.
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The Bahraini people are eager to obtain facts to enable them to shape a comprehensive national opinion without division among its people. We confirm to all journalists and media personnel in the kingdom of Bahrain that their freedom is preserved and their rights are safeguarded.
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When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population.
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I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.
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Be open and honest, but perceptive to your boss's situation. That's my advice to graduates worried about working with a new boss.
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I feel like, if I'm going to have young, impressionable people listening to my music, then I'm going to respect that.
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Books on their own aren't insanely expensive compared to other things; three large cappuccinos cost more than a paperback, and two and a half gallons of gas cost more than a paperback.
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If you want to find out if someone's a taker, it's not actually that useful to know what they've accomplished. What you want to want to know is how they explain them.
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Lipstick is always in, whether it's matte, creamy, glossy, and so on.
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I played a scene at the end of my first year, and that's how I was discovered.
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These are Fortunate Islands, These are lands without a place
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Good evening, daddy I know you’ve heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred
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Turbulence is the beginning of a fruitful process of transformation.
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Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began A mighty hunter, and his prey was man.
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I seek no copy now of life's first half: Leave here the pages with long musing curled, And write me new my future's epigraph, New angel mine, unhoped for in the world!
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And as he lay there a far crack of lightning went bluely down the sky and bequeathed him in an embryonic bird's first fissured vision of the world and transpiring instant and outrageous from dark to dark a final view of the grotto and the shapeless white plasm struggling upon the rich and incunabular moss like a lank swamp hare.
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When you have children, that's when your relationship really gets tested.
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Bits of ignorance are like viruses that are copied and spread by interaction.
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The biggest difference between British TV and American TV is money. But what money doesn't do on American TV, which I thought it would, is buy you time. You don't get more time. You get more toys.
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I love to dance. I can dance for, like, four or five hours nonstop without even drinking water. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
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Photographers are failed painters.
