Quotes - Dan (dan-w) (London, The United Kingdom) Showing 1-27 of 27

#1

“Even the ancient mariner, with his wonderful tale, succeeded in stopping only one of three! No book is for everybody.”
― Leon Garfield

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#2

“Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

tags: books, escape, reading

1588 likes

#3

“Have regrets. They are fuel. On the page they flare into desire.”
― Geoff Dyer

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#4

“Beware of clichés. Not just the clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as well as expression. There are clichés of observation and of thought—even of conception. Many novels, even quite a few adequately written ones, are clichés of form which conform to clichés of expectation.”
― Geoff Dyer

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#5

“Hay una diferencia entre participar e implicarse. En un plato de huevos fritos con chorizo, la gallina participa. El cerdo se implica.”
― Juan Gomez-Jurado, La leyenda del ladrón

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#6

“Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.”
― Robert Browning

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#7

“The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.”
― Roger Scruton

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#8

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

tags: burdens, empowerment, flying, freedom, unburdening, weight

3809 likes

#9

“Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.”
― Raymond Carver

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#10

“My lungs are thick with the smoke of your absence.”
― Raymond Carver, Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems

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#11

“The facts of things do not store well. They rot and fall apart. But the stories we tell last and even grow.”
― Ananda Braxton-Smith, Merrow

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#12

“How ridiculous were the attentions the weak paid one another in the shadow of the strong!”
― V.S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas

tags: literary-fiction

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#13

“Panic was the death of thought.”
― Leon Garfield, The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris

tags: panic

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#14

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

tags: knowledge, life, misattributed-to-kant, paraphrasing-herbert-spencer, science

784 likes

#15

“Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”
― Proust-M

tags: books, literature, reading, solitude, words

659 likes

#16

“Awareness has infinite gradations, like light.”
― Ignazio Silone, Bread and Wine

tags: awareness

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#17

“The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it. ”
― Benjamin Disraeli

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#18

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You

tags: bibliotherapy, books, escape, good-habits, life, pleasure, reading, refuge

2256 likes

#19

“Words are like breath," she said, "you say them and they're gone. But writing traps them.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Pale Horseman

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#20

“Life is bearable even when it's unbearable: that is what's so terrible, that is the unbearable thing about it.”
― Geoff Dyer, Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence

tags: humor, life

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#21

“Marriage is something we make from available materials. In this sense, it's improvised, it's almost offhand. Maybe this is why we know so little about it. It's too inspired and quicksilver a thing to be clearly understood. Two people make a blur.”
― Don DeLillo, The Names

tags: marraige

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#22