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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.»
«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.»
Author: Paul Theroux
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
capitalize, expatriate, expatriates, respected, The Turning Point, turning point
«Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.»
«Riding the Iron Rooster.»
«The kind of travel I do is a reaction to that. Instead of going to meet gorillas or Bhutan, I prefer to go [my own way] and do things the wealthy wouldn't dare to do.»
«Banks and donors and charities claimed to have had successes in Mozambique. I suspected they invented these successes to justify their existence,»
«The drug tour he had hoped would be unique, his own, ... was apparently a widely known trip down a well-traveled path, in the sort of full-color brochure that also described gorilla encounters in Africa and white-water rafting on the Ganges and treks to the Everest base camp and birding in Mongolia.»
«There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment.»
«The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.»
«As Calcutta smells of death and Bombay of Money, Bangkok smells of sex, but this sexual aroma is mingled with the sharper whiffs of sex and money»
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