Paul Theroux Quotes About Train

Quotes about: Train

• It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Worst, Magical Places

• Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.

  Paul Theroux

  Boston, Childhood, Maine

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Great Railway Bazaar”, p.350, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I sought trains; I found passengers.

  Paul Theroux

  Found, Passengers, Train

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Great Railway Bazaar”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.

  Paul Theroux

  Good Night, Sleep, Player

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Great Railway Bazaar”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• So far I had been travelling alone with my handbook and my Western Railway timetable: I was happiest finding my own way and did not require a liaison man. It had been my intention to stay on the train, without bothering about arriving anywhere: sight-seeing was a way of passing the time, but, as I had concluded in Istanbul, it was an activity very largely based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.

  Paul Theroux

  Men, Istanbul, Sight

  Paul Theroux (1976). “The great railway bazaar: by train through Asia”

• It's not fashionable but I like to spit out of the window of a moving train.

  Paul Theroux

  Moving, Window, Spit

• The conversation, like many others I had with people on trains, derived an easy candour from the shared journey, the comfort of the dining car, and the certain knowledge that neither of us would see each other again.

  Paul Theroux

  Journey, People, Car

• The Colombians are good-tempered people. They are used to waiting for buses that are late, used to riding buses and trains that do not arrive.

  Paul Theroux

  Patience, People, Waiting

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.275, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Truly, the worst trains take one across the best landscapes.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Landscape, Worst

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.169, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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