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Top 10 J. Maarten Troost Quotes (2024 Update)

J. Maarten Troost Quote: “I was simply restless, quite likely because of a dissatisfaction with the recent trajectory of my life, and if there is a better, more compelling reason for dropping everything and moving to the end of the world, I know not what it is.”

1. “I was simply restless, quite likely because of a dissatisfaction with the recent trajectory of my life, and if there is a better, more compelling reason for dropping everything and moving to the end of the world, I know not what it is.”

— J. Maarten Troost

J. Maarten Troost Quote: “It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and nothing appreciated.”

2. “It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and nothing appreciated.”

— J. Maarten Troost

J. Maarten Troost Quote: “Like many highly educated people, I didn’t have much in the way of actual skills.”

3. “Like many highly educated people, I didn’t have much in the way of actual skills.”

— J. Maarten Troost

J. Maarten Troost Quote: “Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.”

4. “Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.”

— J. Maarten Troost

J. Maarten Troost Quote: “Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.”

5. “Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.”

— J. Maarten Troost

J. Maarten Troost Quote: “Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.”

6. “Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.”

— J. Maarten Troost

J. Maarten Troost Quote: “I had grown accustomed to life being interesting and adventure ridden and, rather childishly, I refused to believe that this must necessarily come to an end and that the rest of my life should be a sort of penance for all the reckless, irresponsible, and immensely fun things I’d done before.”

7. “I had grown accustomed to life being interesting and adventure ridden and, rather childishly, I refused to believe that this must necessarily come to an end and that the rest of my life should be a sort of penance for all the reckless, irresponsible, and immensely fun things I’d done before.”

— J. Maarten Troost

J. Maarten Troost Quote: “It was, to reiterate, to stress, to accentuate the point, to leave no doubt, hot.”

8. “It was, to reiterate, to stress, to accentuate the point, to leave no doubt, hot.”

— J. Maarten Troost

J. Maarten Troost Quote: “When it comes to naming things, vanity and flattery are dull motivations best suited for deciding on a child’s middle name. Much more interesting are the descriptive names that suggest a story or happening of interest.”

9. “When it comes to naming things, vanity and flattery are dull motivations best suited for deciding on a child’s middle name. Much more interesting are the descriptive names that suggest a story or happening of interest.”

— J. Maarten Troost

J. Maarten Troost Quote: “No one who claims this to be a small world has ever flown across the Pacific.”

10. “No one who claims this to be a small world has ever flown across the Pacific.”

— J. Maarten Troost

J. Maarten Troost Quote: “Don’t get me wrong. Sacramento is a lovely place, particularly for those with a fondness for methamphetamines. For the meth-addled, Sacramento had conveniently placed a Greyhound bus station just yards from the statehouse where Austria’s finest was sworn in as governor of the great state of California.”

11. “Don’t get me wrong. Sacramento is a lovely place, particularly for those with a fondness for methamphetamines. For the meth-addled, Sacramento had conveniently placed a Greyhound bus station just yards from the statehouse where Austria’s finest was sworn in as governor of the great state of California.”

— J. Maarten Troost

J. Maarten Troost Quote: “Stevenson, though, Was soon enough reduced to the timeless lamentations of the I-Matang on an atoll: “I think I could shed tears over a dish of turnips,” he wrote in a letter. And elsewhere: “I had learned to welcome shark’s fresh for a variety; and a mountain, an onion, an Irish potato or beefsteak, had long had been long lost to sense and dear to aspiration.”

12. “Stevenson, though, Was soon enough reduced to the timeless lamentations of the I-Matang on an atoll: “I think I could shed tears over a dish of turnips,” he wrote in a letter. And elsewhere: “I had learned to welcome shark’s fresh for a variety; and a mountain, an onion, an Irish potato or beefsteak, had long had been long lost to sense and dear to aspiration.”

— J. Maarten Troost

J. Maarten Troost Quote: “The I-Kiribati are a remarkably musical people. Everyone sings. There is something arresting about seeing a tough-looking teenage boy suddenly put a flower behind his ear and begin to croon.”

13. “The I-Kiribati are a remarkably musical people. Everyone sings. There is something arresting about seeing a tough-looking teenage boy suddenly put a flower behind his ear and begin to croon.”

— J. Maarten Troost

J. Maarten Troost Quote: “But, as I delved into Chinese for Dummies, I couldn’t help but conclude that the Chinese language is the Great Wall of languages, a clever linguistic barrier erected to keep outsiders out. What, frankly, is wrong with Esperanto? Or alphabets? What is so deficient about an alphabet that uses a judicious twenty-six letters? We can make lots of words with those twenty-six letters, big words even.”

14. “But, as I delved into Chinese for Dummies, I couldn’t help but conclude that the Chinese language is the Great Wall of languages, a clever linguistic barrier erected to keep outsiders out. What, frankly, is wrong with Esperanto? Or alphabets? What is so deficient about an alphabet that uses a judicious twenty-six letters? We can make lots of words with those twenty-six letters, big words even.”

— J. Maarten Troost

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