Paul Theroux Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• Albania in 1994 was the strangest place I've ever seen. It was like walking into the looking glass: falling apart, paranoid people, anarchy, no one farming, full of thieves. It was beyond any Third World country. They were living in their own private nightmare.

  Paul Theroux

  Country, Fall, Glasses

  Source: www.usatoday.com

• In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.

  Paul Theroux

  Country, People, Suits

  Paul Theroux (2004). “Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town”, p.343, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one writer-a mediocre poet.

  Paul Theroux

  Country, Writing, Years

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.83, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate's career. He can either forget it, or capitalize on it. Most choose the latter.

  Paul Theroux

  Country, Careers, White

  Paul Theroux (1986). “Sunrise with Seamonsters”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• You must not judge people by their country. In South America, it is always wise to judge people by their altitude.

  Paul Theroux

  Wise, Country, America

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.295, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The biggest surprise was that a country like Angola, that has so much money, that produces so much oil, would be in such a mess and so difficult to travel in. Something is almost cursed in striking oil. It's like the lottery winner who ends up broke.

  Paul Theroux

  Country, Oil, Would Be

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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