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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'It's broccoli, dear.' 'I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it.'
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'Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.'
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There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.
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[I wish no one ever asked me ] "Did you sign that petition implicating the Bush Administration in 9/11?" Because I never signed it, and I hate being vilified for a controversial idea I never espoused.
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Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.
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I'm a firm believer that there's no way that a six-year-old should have a helmet on and learn a tackling drill.
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A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.
