Paul Theroux Quotes
You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.
Paul Theroux
Quotes to Explore
-
I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Jackie Robinson
-
Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art.
Washed Out
-
I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
Parker Posey
-
I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
Quincy Jones
-
I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
Barry Levinson
-
Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
Tecumseh
-
Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned.
Dalai Lama
-
What are you doing for others?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
-
To me, it's a religious experience to sit down at anyone's table. I feel so invited, like it's a sacred place.
Debi Mazar
-
This paper will serve instead of a confidential friend into whose ear I might pour forth the overflowings of my heart. It will not sympathize with my distresses, but then, it will not laugh at them, and, if I keep it close, it cannot tell again; so it is, perhaps, the best friend I could have for the purpose.
Anne Bronte
-
These monster cities we live in today are blights of modern society. They will certainly give way to planned cities interlinked to the countryside. Everybody will live with the natural advantages of the country and the cultural associations of the town.
James P. Cannon
-
You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.
Paul Theroux
