Paul Theroux Frases y Citas
Paul Theroux: Frases en inglés
“Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.”
“Paul Theroux, Restless Writer Of the Rails“ by Paul Hendrickson, Washington Post (September 20, 1979).
Fuente: Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents
“travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.”
Fuente: The Great Railway Bazaar
“The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.”
Fuente: 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”
Variante: You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.
Fuente: 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.
"Being a Man" (1983), from Sunrise with Seamonsters: Travels and Discoveries, 1964-84 (Houghton Mifflin, 1986, , 384 pages), p. 309.
“The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.”
Fuente: The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), Ch. 28.
“I sought trains; I found passengers.”
Fuente: 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.
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).
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
The Old Patagonian Express (1979)
