"Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life"

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Source : Paul Theroux (2011). “The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Paul Theroux

#Live Your Life Quotes #Destination Quotes #Reaching Quotes

“The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at.”
“I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me.”
“In the future it will become even easier for old negatives to become lost and be ?replaced? by new altered negatives. This would be a great loss to our society. Our cultural history must not be allowed to be rewritten.”
“Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.”
“We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.”

Source : Outspoken Essays: Second Series "The Idea of Progress" (1922)
“I like when people don't feel the need to have everything add up perfectly. I don't think we need that, what I think we need is to let ourselves have room to move and understand that life is a journey. And with that comes freedom. I think the more you try to compartmentalize and snap it all into place you may rob yourself of an experience that's really important for you.”

Source : Source: sojo.net
“I really enjoy the writing process because I can do it from my house. I can create these characters and take them in the different directions that I want to take them. You have a lot of freedom as a writer.”
“When I'm applying for a new passport, or something, someone will call me Christopher. Other than that, no one ever calls me Christopher.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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