After a man has made a large amount of money he becomes a bad listener and an impatient tourist.

Paul Theroux

After a man has made a large amount of money he becomes a bad listener and an impatient tourist. - Paul Theroux
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Paul Theroux

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  • When a man is a traveller, the world is his house and the sky is his roof, where he hangs his hat is his home, and all the people are his family.
  • But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.
  • It is a big and beautiful world. Most of us live and die in the same corner where we were born and never get to see any of it. I don’t want to be most of us.
  • He did not think of himself as a tourist; he was a traveler.
  • While the tourist usually hurried back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler, belonging no more to one place than the rest, moves slowly, over periods of years, from one part of the Earth to another.
  • If we travel simply to indulge ourselves we are missing some of the greatest lessons life has to offer.
  • Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear.
  • Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.
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