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PAUL THEROUX The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.
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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