Paris Trance Quotes

“Instead of spending his afternoons prowling the parks and jerking off like this he should have been working on his French, which was so poor that even the simplest tasks – deciphering menus, buying bleach to clean out the toilet, ordering sandwiches – became major exercises in pantomime diplomacy.”
― Geoff Dyer, Paris Trance: A Romance

“Rarely understanding how much shopkeepers and waiters were charging him, he paid for everything with fifty-or hundred-franc notes and came home with sagging pockets of change.”
― Geoff Dyer, Paris Trance: A Romance

“Luke, azamet ve masumiyetle ifade ettiği şekilde "sürgünde" geçen bir kitap yazma niyetiyle Paris'e geldiğinde yirmi altı yaşındaydı (Scott Fitzhgerald'a göre " bir erkek için hoş bir yaş").”
― Geoff Dyer, Paris Trance

“Most of all, he loved Celia Johnson, her hats,her face,her cracked porcelain voice: 'This can't last. This misery can't last.Nothing lasts really,neither happiness nor despair.Not even life lasts long....There'll come a time in the future when i shan't mind about this any more....”
― Geoff Dyer, Paris Trance