Paul Theroux Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.

  Paul Theroux

  Photography, Eye, Lust

  Paul Theroux (2014). “Picture Palace: A Novel”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• A national crisis, a political convulsion, is an opportunity, a gift to the traveler. Nothing is more revealing of a place to a stranger than trouble. Even if a crisis is incomprehensible, as it usually is, it lends drama to the day and transforms the traveler into an eye witness.

  Paul Theroux

  Drama, Eye, Opportunity

  Paul Theroux (2012). “The Lower River”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The difference between travel writing as fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows. Fiction is pure joy - how sad that I could not reinvent the trip as fiction.

  Paul Theroux

  Eye, Writing, Differences

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Great Railway Bazaar”, p.350, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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