Minor Black Figures Quotes

“That was because he was trying to figure what the viewer would want. What they’d think of him. He was always trying to manage. What he needed was the capacity to open himself to whatever came.”
― Brandon Taylor, Minor Black Figures

“When you didn’t design your query effectively, you got muddled results. Of course. He should have asked a better question.”
― Brandon Taylor, Minor Black Figures

“Sometimes it’s nice to remember that there are strangers in the world and we don’t have to know everything about everyone and that it’s still possible to meet someone the once and never see them again.”
― Brandon Taylor, Minor Black Figures

“We all have this story or a story about feeling always a little weird. A little different from other kids, and our mothers always say, Yes, I knew from early on, a mother always knows.”
― Brandon Taylor, Minor Black Figures

“There were kinds of beauty that came from some wounded inner quality that made looking at the person difficult. Then there was the plainly presented beauty, naturally warm in its quality and easy, simple. This sort of beauty was the kind most to be distrusted.”
― Brandon Taylor, Minor Black Figures

“Form with no content, no animating idea except the giddy profusion of language itself. That made one a writer, perhaps even a poet, but did not make a critic.”
― Brandon Taylor, Minor Black Figures

“Could you take the ordinary seriously without tuning it into some kind of sentimental, romantic bullshit? Could you?”
― Brandon Taylor, Minor Black Figures

“Child prodigies got pickled by their talent and rendered emotionally childlike for the rest of their lives. Too much expectation at too early an age gave an air of premature maturity that later in life turned out to be immaturity.”
― Brandon Taylor, Minor Black Figures