Frases de Paul Theroux

Paul Edward Theroux é um escritor de literatura de viagem e romancista americano, cuja obra mais célebre é The Great Railway Bazaar , de 1975, um travelogue que ele fez de comboio da Grã-Bretanha, passando pelo Leste Europeu, Médio Oriente, Ásia do Sul e Sudeste Asiático, até ao Leste Asiático, tão a Oriente quanto o Japão, e depois voltou pela Rússia até ao seu ponto de origem. Apesar de mais conhecido como escritor de viagens, Theroux também publicou numerosas obras de ficção, algumas das quais se transformaram em filmes. Foi galardoado em 1981 com o Prémio James Tait Memorial pelo seu romance The Mosquito Coast . É pai de dois escritores e documentaristas, Louis Theroux e Marcel Theroux, e irmão dos escritores Alexander Theroux e Peter Theroux. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. Abril 1941   •   Outros nomes Paul Edward Theroux
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“Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.”

“Paul Theroux, Restless Writer Of the Rails“ by Paul Hendrickson, Washington Post (September 20, 1979).

“travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.”

Paul Theroux livro The Great Railway Bazaar

Fonte: The Great Railway Bazaar

“The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.”

Fonte: 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.
Fonte: Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

“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.”

Hockney’s Alphabet, D is for Death, ed. Stephen Spender (1991)
Book published to raise money for AIDS victims.

“The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.”

Paul Theroux livro The Great Railway Bazaar

Fonte: The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), Ch. 28.

“I sought trains; I found passengers.”

Paul Theroux livro The Great Railway Bazaar

Fonte: The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), Ch. 1.

“Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.”

Paul Theroux livro The Great Railway Bazaar

Fonte: The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), Ch. 21.

“Photographers are failed painters.”

Picture Palace (1978)

“Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control.”

Living With Geese http://smithsonianmag.com/issues/2006/december/geese.php?page=1, Smithsonian Magazine (December 2006).

“Tightfisted people are as mean with friendship as they are with cash--suspicious, unbelieving, and incurious.”

Paul Theroux livro 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
The Old Patagonian Express (1979)