Post by Owen on Jun 15, 2020 19:38:48 GMT
1 ~~~ 'Travel is glamorous only in retrospect' – Paul Theroux's finest quotes ~~~
The celebrated travel writer, Paul Theroux, has been given the Edward Stanford Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing Award.
Here we take a look at 31 of his wisest (and funniest) quotes about the fine art of travel.
1. “Tourists don't know where they've been, travellers don't know where they're going.”
2. “In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.”
3. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.”
4. “I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.”
5. “Where you love living most is the place you wouldn't mind dying. I left England about 20 years ago, because I realised I really didn't want to die there.
I have fantasies of checking out in a tiny village in rural Thailand attended by adoring villagers with chickens around, lying around, something like Mr Kurtz, except a lot jollier.”
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www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/books/Paul-Therouxs-finest-quotes/
The celebrated travel writer, Paul Theroux, has been given the Edward Stanford Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing Award.
Here we take a look at 31 of his wisest (and funniest) quotes about the fine art of travel.
1. “Tourists don't know where they've been, travellers don't know where they're going.”
2. “In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.”
3. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.”
4. “I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.”
5. “Where you love living most is the place you wouldn't mind dying. I left England about 20 years ago, because I realised I really didn't want to die there.
I have fantasies of checking out in a tiny village in rural Thailand attended by adoring villagers with chickens around, lying around, something like Mr Kurtz, except a lot jollier.”
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..
.
www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/books/Paul-Therouxs-finest-quotes/