Paul Theroux Quotes

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

Paul Theroux

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• I love to have no plans. It is amazing where your day can turn when you have no plans: meeting people or just going to a little pub on the side of the road.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Love
  • Day

• 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

• I never looked at people or singing as commodities.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • People
  • Singing
  • Never

• 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

• Young people are this awesome, creative, hopeful untapped resource out there.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • People
  • Creative
  • Awesome

• 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

• Disliking someone is almost as big a commitment as loving someone, and it carries none of the benefits.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Commitment
  • Benefits
  • Disliking

• I have always idolized eccentric people.

  

  Brandon Boyd Incubus
  • People

• It is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Mean
  • Risk
  • Easy

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

  

  Paul Theroux