Famous quotes containing the word theroux:
“You must not judge people by their country. In South America, it is always wise to judge people by their altitude.”
—Paul Theroux (b. 1941)
“The particular source of frustration of women observing their own self-study and measuring their worth as women by the distance they kept from men necessitated that a distance be kept, and so what vindicated them also poured fuel on the furnace of their rage. One delight presumed another dissatisfaction, but their hatefulness confessed to their own lack of power to please. They hated men because they needed husbands, and they loathed the men they chased away for going.”
—Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)
“September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.”
—Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)