Paul Theroux: Quotes about the trip

Paul Theroux is American travel writer and novelist. Explore interesting quotes on way.
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“Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way”

Paul Theroux

Source: Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents

Way , Confidence , Failure , Cooking

“You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back”

Paul Theroux

Variant: You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.
Source: Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

Way , Time , Personality

“Assigning human personalities to animals is the chief trait of the pet owner—the doting dog-lover with his baby talk, the smug stay-at-home with a fat lump of fur on her lap who says, "Me, I'm a cat person," and the granny who puts her nose against the tin cage and makes kissing noises at her parakeet. Their affection is often tinged with a sense of superiority. Deer and duck hunters never talk this way about their prey, though big game hunters— Hemingway is the classic example — often sentimentalize the creatures they blow to bits and then lovingly stuff to hang on the wall.”

Paul Theroux

Living With Geese.

Dogs , Way , Home , Game

“In many ways connection has been disastrous. We have confused information (of which there has been too much of) with ideas (of which there are too few. I found out much more about the world and myself by being unconnected.”

Paul Theroux

Fresh Air Fiend (2000)

World , Way , Idea