But people don't change their beliefs easily. Even when their deepest convictions are challenged - by the failure of the world to end, for example - they continue on their way, sticking to the old routine: they get back on their weird bikes and ride again.


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Silence is the unbearable repartee.
ALEXANDER THEROUX
Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how m...
ALEXANDER THEROUX
..luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you ...
PAUL THEROUX
The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.
PAUL THEROUX
I've always found it funny in life when you meet people who are incredibly stupid and incredibly...
JUSTIN THEROUX
I don't look down on tourism. I live in Hawaii where we have 7 million visitors a year. If they ...
PAUL THEROUX
Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing w...
PAUL THEROUX
He didn't seem conventionally insane in any way that I could understand. But there was no way of com...
MARCEL THEROUX
People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for...
PAUL THEROUX
Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is m...
PAUL THEROUX
If I had to write long-form stuff with descriptions of rooms, it would be so boring for me. I like w...
JUSTIN THEROUX
...a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.
PAUL THEROUX
The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.
PAUL THEROUX
It's like, once you've seen Tom Hanks win the Golden Globes, the Oscars, you've seen his...
JUSTIN THEROUX
Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?
ALEXANDER THEROUX
Nature is crooked. I wanted right angles and straight lines. Ice! Oh, why do they all drip? You cut ...
PAUL THEROUX
Many travelers are essentially fantasists. Tourists are timid fantasists, the others - risk takers -...
PAUL THEROUX
Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound...
PHYLLIS THEROUX
He regarded himself as an accomplished writer — a clear sign of madness in anyone.
PAUL THEROUX
September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows,...
ALEXANDER THEROUX
Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.
PAUL THEROUX
Writing is not only a reflection of what one thinks and feels but a rope one weaves with words that ...
PHYLLIS THEROUX
Offending people is a necessary and healthy act. Every time you say something that's offensive to an...
LOUIS C.K. (LOUIS SZEKELY)
I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I wr...
LOUIS L'AMOUR
What the people are within, the buildings express without.
LOUIS SULLIVAN
Live life for the moment because everything else is uncertain!
LOUIS TOMLINSON
A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
LOUIS NIZER
To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not ...
LOUIS L'AMOUR
I think of myself... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire.
LOUIS L'AMOUR
You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.&#...
LOUIS KAHN
I grew up in Doncaster and have felt the love for football run through the town; it's for that r...
LOUIS TOMLINSON
My favorite moment is when someone says, 'I like 'Unleashed.' 'Now You See Me' i...
LOUIS LETERRIER
I'm a very loyal boyfriend. I'm a bit of a joker... I can be romantic, but not too sickly.
LOUIS TOMLINSON
You bring me the deepest joy that can be felt by a man whose invincible belief is that Science and P...
LOUIS PASTEUR
Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.
LOUIS UNTERMEYER
You blows who you is.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG
There was a man who was an associate of jimmy Hoffa, who testified against Hoffa in his trial down i...
LOUIS STOKES
If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
LOUIS BRANDEIS
Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
LOUIS L'AMOUR
The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us,is a direct result o...
LOUIS PASTEUR
If you hate somebody, it's like a boomerang that misses its target and comes back and hits you i...
LOUIS ZAMPERINI
A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none ...
LOUIS L'AMOUR
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
LOUIS L'AMOUR
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
LOUIS L'AMOUR
After the Versailles treaty, the U.S. could have chosen to become a global economic loan shark, but ...
LOUIS NAVELLIER
I had begun reading earlier than most because my sister Emmy Lou, no doubt to keep me from bothering...
LOUIS L'AMOUR
Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about...
LOUIS ARAGON