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
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Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.
The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.
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.
Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.
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