Paul Theroux Quotes About Waiting

Quotes about: Waiting

• The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work, travel is perfect: let other people wait for a change. Travel is a sort of revenge for having been put on hold, or having to leave messages on answering machines, not knowing your party's extension, being kept waiting all your working life - the homebound writer's irritants. But also being kept waiting is the human conditon.

  Paul Theroux

  Revenge, Party, Home

  Paul Theroux (2004). “Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• 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

• People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write three pages about how long it took them to get a visa. I'm not interested in the boring parts. Everyone has tummy trouble. Everyone waits in line. I don't want to hear about it.

  Paul Theroux

  Writing, Long, People

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