It was not a bad place, but a place you want to leave, to escape from. … It was all right to grow up there, but to stay there? Fatal.’’
Paul Theroux on his Massachusetts hometown
Read Theroux’s essay “Going Home, Going Away” from The American Scholar’s Autumn 2010 issue
Source: theamericanscholar.org
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