Paul Theroux - Waiting Quotes

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The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work, travel is perfect: let other people wait for a change. Travel is a sort of revenge for having been put on hold, or having to leave messages on answering machines, not knowing your party's extension, being kept waiting all your working life - the homebound writer's irritants. But also being kept waiting is the human conditon.

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The Colombians are good-tempered people. They are used to waiting for buses that are late, used to riding buses and trains that do not arrive.

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