The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, … - Paul Theroux

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We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right.

Paul Theroux

The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security, but especially no big surprises, no shocks.

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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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In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity, crime, armed revolt), and exemplary moral courage; none of these is normal.

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We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right.

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Mark Twain

When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you are in doubt," but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity.

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