Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us. - Paul Theroux

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I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.

Paul Theroux

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.

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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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All places, no matter where, no matter what, are worth visiting.

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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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