Theroux

Famous quotes containing the word theroux:

    The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
    —Paul Theroux (b. 1941)

    The ladies understood each other, in the careful way that ladies do once they understand each other. They were rather a pair than a couple, supporting each other from day to day, rather a set of utile, if ill-matched, bookends between which stood the opinion and idea in the metaphorical volumes that both connected them and kept them apart.
    —Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)

    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.
    —Paul Theroux (b. 1941)