Paul Theroux Quotes
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
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There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.
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What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.
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The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.
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Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.
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I was on morning TV for 10 years in Chicago.
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Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.
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The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.
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It really sucks to be the number two intelligent species on this planet; you can just ask gorillas.
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Life as a poet and actor truly became full circle as I stood on stage as host of 'Verses & Flow' and lived in both of these outfits. It was one of the best experiences of my professional life.
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When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
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As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional.
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The world and life are one. (5.621)
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Sparrow: If you'd get a vasectomy, we wouldn't have to go through this every time.Stuart: But... but you know I want to have a baby eventually.Sparrow: So make some deposits at a sperm bank first. Then we can inseminate like normal people when we're ready.
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I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone.
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Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting.
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We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.
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The day will never come when any Palestinian would be arrested because of his political affiliation or because of resisting the occupation. The file of political detention must be closed.
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A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.
