Paul Theroux idézetek
Paul Theroux: Idézetek angolul
“Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.”
New York Times (July 28, 1976).
“Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.”
“Paul Theroux, Restless Writer Of the Rails“ by Paul Hendrickson, Washington Post (September 20, 1979).
Paul Theroux könyv Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
Forrás: Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
Forrás: Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents
Paul Theroux könyv Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
Forrás: Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
“travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.”
Paul Theroux könyv The Great Railway Bazaar
Forrás: The Great Railway Bazaar
“The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.”
Forrás: Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
“You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back”
Változat: You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.
Forrás: Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
Hockney’s Alphabet, D is for Death, ed. Stephen Spender (1991)
Book published to raise money for AIDS victims.
“Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.”
Observer (London, October 29, 1989).
"Being a Man" (1983), from Sunrise with Seamonsters: Travels and Discoveries, 1964-84 (Houghton Mifflin, 1986, , 384 pages), p. 309.
Paul Theroux könyv The Old Patagonian Express
The Old Patagonian Express (1979)
“The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.”
Paul Theroux könyv The Great Railway Bazaar
Forrás: The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), Ch. 28.
“I sought trains; I found passengers.”
Paul Theroux könyv The Great Railway Bazaar
Forrás: The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), Ch. 1.
“The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson’s on the main drag into maturity.”
Sunrise with Seamonsters (1985).
Tarzan Is an Expatriate, quoted in Patrick Marnham's Dispatches from Africa, ch. 1 (1981).
Living With Geese.
Paul Theroux könyv The Great Railway Bazaar
Forrás: The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), Ch. 21.
Paul Theroux könyv The Old Patagonian Express
The Old Patagonian Express (1979)
Paul Theroux könyv The Kingdom by the Sea
The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around Great Britain, ch. 1 (1983).
Living With Geese http://smithsonianmag.com/issues/2006/december/geese.php?page=1, Smithsonian Magazine (December 2006).
Paul Theroux könyv The Old Patagonian Express
Chapter 5 http://books.google.com/books?id=vrtURNBqzRMC&q=%22Tightfisted+people+are+as+mean+with+friendship+as+they+are+with+cash+suspicious+unbelieving+and+incurious%22&pg=PA94#v=onepage, The Passenger Train to Tapachula <br class="br">The Old Patagonian Express (1979)
