"Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going."

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Source : Paul Theroux (2011). “The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Paul Theroux

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“The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.”
“The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.”
“No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me.”
“What happened with Final Destination was that the movie was in post-production for a long time and I think they changed a lot of the deaths, so a lot of those things were last-minute additions. Everything we shot is in the movie and it's all been designed. We didn't change anything. It's been a year of making those things happen, exactly as we had pictured them.”
“I haven't danced since 1973; I'm too old.”

Source : "'I haven't danced since 1973, not even at my own wedding': Len Goodman on life, love and Strictly" by Alun Palmer, www.mirror.co.uk. January 15, 2013.
“It becomes evident that when the Life-power awakens its mysterious activity at the beginning of a cycle of manifestation those vibrations which we recognise as sound come into existence before the more rapid pulsations of electricity and light. Thus modern science confirms the ancient occult teaching that sound is the root of physical existence. 'It is out of Sound that every form comes, and it is in Sound that every form lives.”
“It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both.”

Source : "Fictional character: William Seward". "Lincoln", 2012.
“Britain, Europe's second largest economy, a member of the G-7 and the UN Security Council, wants to leave the EU. That weakens us and it weakens Britain.”

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