Theroux

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    He crafted his writing and loved listening to those tiny explosions when the active brutality of verbs in revolution raced into sweet established nouns to send marching across the page a newly commissioned army of words-on-maneuvers, all decorated in loops, frets, and arrowlike flourishes.
    —Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)

    There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.
    —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)