Paul Theroux Quotes about Journey

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Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

Paul Theroux

Travel, Adventure, Journey

Paul Theroux (2011). “The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing.

Paul Theroux

Journey, Matter, Voyages

Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Reading is also a journey. It's a process of discovery.

Paul Theroux

Reading, Journey, Discovery

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The conversation, like many others I had with people on trains, derived an easy candour from the shared journey, the comfort of the dining car, and the certain knowledge that neither of us would see each other again.

Paul Theroux

Journey, People, Car

There is an intense but simple thrill in setting off in the morning on a mountain trail, knowing that everything you need is on your back. It is a confidence in having left the inessentials behind and of entering a world of natural beauty that has not been violated, where money has no value, and possessions are a dead weight. The person with the fewest possessions is the freest. Thoreau was right.

Paul Theroux

Morning, Simple, Journey

Paul Theroux Quotes about Journey

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