Best quotes by Paul Theroux on People

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• ‟ Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

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• ‟ I think people read travel books either because they intend to take that trip, or because they would never take that trip. In a sense, as a writer you are doing the travel for the reader.

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• ‟ There are two worlds: the world of the tourist and the world of everyone else. Often they're side by side. But the tourist doesn't actually see how people live.

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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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• ‟ I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read.

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• ‟ The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.

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• ‟ People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books.

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