Paul Theroux: Quotes about travel

Paul Theroux is American travel writer and novelist. Explore interesting quotes on travel.

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“Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.”

“Paul Theroux, Restless Writer Of the Rails“ by Paul Hendrickson, Washington Post (September 20, 1979).

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

“Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.”

Paul Theroux book Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

Source: Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

“travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.”

Paul Theroux book The Great Railway Bazaar

Source: The Great Railway Bazaar

“Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.”

Paul Theroux book The Great Railway Bazaar

Source: The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), Ch. 21.