Sometimes people read a book in order to not go on a trip. You read a book instead … - Paul Theroux

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Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight.

Paul Theroux

Sometimes people read a book in order to not go on a trip. You read a book instead of going on the trip. And so the travel writer is doing the traveling for you.

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The long morning shadows lay as still and dark as lakes and patterned the rough ground with straight margins.

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Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening.

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Basically, what you find out is the limits of your patience and your strength and your capacity to adapt. You find that out in travel and being alone and being tested. So that's a great thing.

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Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

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