Paul Theroux Quotes

The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.

Paul Theroux

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• You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Country
  • You
  • Living

• Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Different
  • Will
  • Patterns

• I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • See

• Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • Creative

• I definitely want my fans to know that I'm here to stay, and I'm going to continue to give them hot music.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Music
  • Want
  • Know

• A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • People
  • Work
  • America

• In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.

  

  Naomi Weisstein
  • People
  • Important
  • You

• I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Idea
  • Stand
  • Casualties

• True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • People
  • True
  • Guilt

• I don't use sex to sell records, obviously, but I'd be lying if I said that I don't feel like I have to make an effort to look good when I go out onstage, to wear something pretty.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Effort

• Time machine... wouldn't you like to travel through time? I would. I'd go back... mess with people. You know what I would do? I would go back to when my mom and dad were having sex, to have me. Ya'know, come in, spank my dad on the ass *smack* I'M YOUR SON FROM THE FUTURE!! AAAAAAHAHAHHAHAHAHA! *smack* I'M FROM THE FUTURE!! I'M YOUR SON!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAH

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Time
  • Future

• But that was only the beginning of her mortification. Harold had proved her wrong. He had seen that she was a shifty, shallow hypocrite. She had not dared to be alone with him since her exposure. She had never looked at him and had hardly spoken. He seemed cheerful, but what was he thinking? He would never forgive her.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Alone

• 'Now you understand the Oriental passion for tea,' said Japhy. 'Remember that book I told you about; the first sip is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.'

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Passion

• There have been men before … who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself… as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • God
  • Men

• Toni: Well... straight couples get respect when they marry. Maybe we need to make some kind of symbolic affirmation of our commitment to one another!Clarice: You mean...Toni: Yes! Let's open a joint checking account!Clarice: Oh, darling! But this is so sudden!

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Respect
  • Commitment
  • Affirmation

• When people blanket a whole class of people with statements, I just think that is unfair to everybody. I could do the same thing about media. I can do the same thing about politicians or lawyers, and they're just never accurate.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • People

• Companies buy customers when they cannot win new business on their own. They merge when their executives do not have a better idea of what to do.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Business

• My days are always changing, as some days, I'm on a shoot, or I will be DJing in the middle of the day or evening.

  

  Hannah Bronfman

• I regret that I stayed in my first relationship for too long. I didn't get that it wasn't working out.

  

  Aron Flam
  • Long
  • Regret

• I'm self-opinionated, and I have a sense of self. I can be brutal with agents and have been.

  

  Paul Eenhoorn
  • Sense
  • Brutal
  • Opinionated

• For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question "Who am I?" recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude. The bewildered soul can answer only: "Since I do not understand 'Who I am,' I only know what I am not." The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate. The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • War
  • Soul
  • Hate

• No, it's not healed. It happened in Sochi and it's been going on and off all season. It's been bugging me throughout my entire Grand Prix season. Coming here, my foot was bothering me. I knew when to push my foot and when not to. I know that it was all in my head. I knew if I didn't think about it too much, it wouldn't bother me too much. But it's been getting better. Still not fully healed but it's getting much better than it has been.

  

  Gabrielle Daleman
  • Season
  • Entire
  • Grand Prix

• The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.

  

  Paul Theroux