Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.
- Paul Theroux
More Quotes By Paul Theroux
- The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it’s the only thing...
- Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.
- There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star...
- My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands....
- The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.
- The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or...
- So far I had been travelling alone with my handbook and my Western Railway timetable: I was happiest...
- You go away for a long time and return a different person – you never come all the...
- You can’t save the rhinos and you can’t preserve a culture. I’m very pessimistic. Once it’s gone, it’s...
- All travel is circular. I had been jerked through Asia, making a parabola on one of the planet’s...
- Tibet has a very proud people but it’s culturally gone and overrun ever since the Chinese took over....
- Railways are irresistible bazaars, snaking along perfectly level no matter what the landscape, improving your mood with speed,...
- Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.
- Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes...
- Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
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