Paul Theroux - Dark Star Safari (2002)

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You go away for a long time and return a different person — you never come all the way back.

Paul Theroux

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.

Paul Theroux

Banks and donors and charities claimed to have had successes in Mozambique. I suspected they invented these successes to justify their existence.

Paul Theroux

The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace.

Paul Theroux