Пол Теру — американский писатель, лауреат многих литературных премий.
Актер и сценарист Джастин Теру является племянником писателя.
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Источник: проза
“Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.”
“Paul Theroux, Restless Writer Of the Rails“ by Paul Hendrickson, Washington Post (September 20, 1979).
Источник: Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents
“travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.”
Источник: The Great Railway Bazaar
“The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.”
Источник: Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
“You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back”
Вариант: You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.
Источник: Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
Hockney’s Alphabet, D is for Death, ed. Stephen Spender (1991)
Book published to raise money for AIDS victims.
"Being a Man" (1983), from Sunrise with Seamonsters: Travels and Discoveries, 1964-84 (Houghton Mifflin, 1986, , 384 pages), p. 309.
“The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.”
Источник: The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), Ch. 28.
“I sought trains; I found passengers.”
Источник: The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), Ch. 1.
“The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson’s on the main drag into maturity.”
Sunrise with Seamonsters (1985).
Tarzan Is an Expatriate, quoted in Patrick Marnham's Dispatches from Africa, ch. 1 (1981).
Living With Geese.
The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around Great Britain, ch. 1 (1983).
Living With Geese http://smithsonianmag.com/issues/2006/december/geese.php?page=1, Smithsonian Magazine (December 2006).
Chapter 5 http://books.google.com/books?id=vrtURNBqzRMC&q=%22Tightfisted+people+are+as+mean+with+friendship+as+they+are+with+cash+suspicious+unbelieving+and+incurious%22&pg=PA94#v=onepage, The Passenger Train to Tapachula
The Old Patagonian Express (1979)
