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About Paul Theroux
American novelist and travel writer
Paul Theroux is an American novelist and travel writer. He is known for books that move between fiction and travel writing, including the travelogue The Great Railway Bazaar. His work has reached beyond the page as well. The Mosquito Coast won the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and some of his fiction has been adapted for film and television, including versions of The Mosquito Coast.
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- “Nature is crooked. I wanted right angles and straight lines. Ice! Oh, why do they all drip? You cut yourself…”Paul Theroux
- “When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call…”Paul Theroux
Honeymoon: more sayings
- “I put weight on easily if I eat too much and don't exercise. When I went on my honeymoon in 1999, I put on a…”Debra Stephenson
- “Literally, my honeymoon was driving to Chicago.”Pete Holmes
- “That honeymoon phase is so much fun in real life, when you meet and discover somebody new and fall in love an…”Lucas Neff
More Travel quotes
- “Culture becomes visible when we travel between “ cultures ” and when we look back in time to other “ cultures…”Michael Ryan
- “In the Negro Leagues, we'd play three games a day on the weekends. Then we'd ride the bus and travel to play…”Ray Dandridge
- “All I have is a life's worth of school days. What came before school I can't remember. You can only sketch so…”Nina LaCour
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Books by Paul Theroux
The Great Railway Bazaar
1977
The Elephanta suite
2007
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
2007
A Dead Hand
2010
The happy isles of Oceania
1999