Paul Theroux Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• ... Oceanic malaise. I never saw anyone reading anything more demanding than a comic book. I never heard any youth express an interest in science or art. No one even talked politics. It was all idleness, and whenever I asked someone a question, no matter how simple, no matter how well the person spoke English, there was always a long pause before I got a reply, and I found these Pacific pauses maddening. And there was giggling but no humor - no wit. It was just foolery.

  Paul Theroux

  Art, Book, Reading

• One of the upsides of tourism is that people begin to take themselves a little more seriously (and think their) culture is worth something. So rather than disparaging the local culture, they vitalize it.

  Paul Theroux

  Thinking, People, Tourism

  Source: www.usatoday.com

• You can't save the rhinos and you can't preserve a culture. I'm very pessimistic. Once it's gone, it's over.

  Paul Theroux

  Rhinos, Culture, Gone

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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