Best quotes by Paul Theroux on Life

Checkout quotes by Paul Theroux on Life

• ‟ The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'

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• ‟ I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give it life with your imagination, then what you write ought to have lasting value, no matter what the mood of your prose.

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• ‟ Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

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• ‟ The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my life. I didn't like it.

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• ‟ Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent.

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• ‟ Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent.

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• ‟ Everything is fiction. You only have your own life to work with in the way that a biographer only has the letters and journals to work with.

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• ‟ Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us.

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• ‟ What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life.

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