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A place that doesn't welcome tourists, that's really difficult and off the map, is a place I want to see.
— Paul Theroux
Tags: want, place, difficult, welcome

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People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write three pages about how long it took them to get a visa. I'm not interested in the boring parts. Everyone has tummy trouble. Everyone waits in line. I don't want to hear about it.
— Paul Theroux
Tags: wait, long, people, waiting
Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.
— Paul Theroux
Tags: reputation, will, never, you
One of the things the 'Tao of Travel' shows is how unforthcoming most travel writers are, how most travelers are. They don't tell you who they were traveling with, and they're not very reliable about things that happened to them.
— Paul Theroux
Tags: things, who, travel, you
Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
— Paul Theroux
Tags: going, where, know, travel
There are two worlds: the world of the tourist and the world of everyone else. Often they're side by side. But the tourist doesn't actually see how people live.
— Paul Theroux
Tags: see, live, world, people
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