--- title: "1 Guy Knew Quotes By Evan Dara" description: "1 Guy Knew quotes by Evan Dara. Plus more from Evan Dara and more Guy Knew sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cfa/evan-dara-17684_weakest-link_and-as-he-swigged-another-dose-it-just-k_1114554.jpg" --- > [“...and as he swigged another dose, it just kind of came clear to me that the guy was nothing but sadness, really nothing but that, the weakest link in the Great Chain of Being, and that if when raging he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/evan-dara/and-as-he-swigged-another-dose-it-just-kind-of-came-clear-to-me-that/) [Evan Dara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/evan-dara/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cfa/evan-dara-17684_weakest-link_and-as-he-swigged-another-dose-it-just-k_1114554.jpg) ## More by Evan Dara > [“it's true what they sang in that song, that video killed the radio star-how in the long war between the senses, the eye, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/evan-dara/it-s-true-what-they-sang-in-that-song-that-video-killed-the-radio/) [Evan Dara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/evan-dara/) > [“...but now, though, because I have still not gotten there, I feel as if distance- as if distance itself-has developed a density, a viscosity,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/evan-dara/but-now-though-because-i-have-still-not-gotten-there-i-feel-as-if/) [Evan Dara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/evan-dara/) > [“and I again turned through the magazine's first few pages, past the Guess Jeans ads and Eternity by Calvin Klein ads and pitches for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/evan-dara/and-i-again-turned-through-the-magazine-s-first-few-pages-past-the/) [Evan Dara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/evan-dara/) > [“the figures are shadow-swept, various, self-involved, and as turbulent as waves, as standing waves ...; and as I look at them, as I curl…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/evan-dara/the-figures-are-shadow-swept-various-self-involved-and-as-turbulent/) [Evan Dara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/evan-dara/) > [ “\[L\]et them be their own Rorschach tests\[.\]” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/evan-dara/l-et-them-be-their-own-rorschach-tests/) [Evan Dara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/evan-dara/) > [“...And all the while, accompanying my every step, The Photographer is sounding in my head, purling incessantly through my clamped-on Walkman; it's a good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/evan-dara/and-all-the-while-accompanying-my-every-step-the-photographer-is/) [Evan Dara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/evan-dara/) > [“I hear his heartbeats as my own, I feel his urgency as my own, our covalent union making of us both a new, charged,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/evan-dara/i-hear-his-heartbeats-as-my-own-i-feel-his-urgency-as-my-own-our/) [Evan Dara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/evan-dara/) > [“Now my sole function in this world is to serve as receptacle for the proof that I am inconsequential; every experience I accrete is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/evan-dara/now-my-sole-function-in-this-world-is-to-serve-as-receptacle-for-the/) [Evan Dara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/evan-dara/) > [“Marcus waves an unseen hand.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/evan-dara/marcus-waves-an-unseen-hand/) [Evan Dara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/evan-dara/) > [“I grieve to think that closeness requires some measure of distance as its preserver, if only as a safety measure, because it certainly seems…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/evan-dara/i-grieve-to-think-that-closeness-requires-some-measure-of-distance-as/) [Evan Dara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/evan-dara/) > [“...when I read to her, her quietness, her peacefulness, was what I sought to hear, and it echoed in me as if in an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/evan-dara/when-i-read-to-her-her-quietness-her-peacefulness-was-what-i-sought/) [Evan Dara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/evan-dara/) > [“and it goes, the music just goes, without faltering, without hesitation, not depleted through repetition, but enriched; and as it goes- without faltering, without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/evan-dara/and-it-goes-the-music-just-goes-without-faltering-without-hesitation/) [Evan Dara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/evan-dara/) > [“I mean, Ken has a policy of never taking even a one-granule snort when he's doing a show, and, though he's never said anything,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/evan-dara/i-mean-ken-has-a-policy-of-never-taking-even-a-one-granule-snort-when/) [Evan Dara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/evan-dara/) > [“...and as he swigged another dose, it just kind of came clear to me that the guy was nothing but sadness, really nothing but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/evan-dara/and-as-he-swigged-another-dose-it-just-kind-of-came-clear-to-me-that/) [Evan Dara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/evan-dara/) > [“...and I was thinking of what it would be like to have such a wound, to lift up the bottom of my shirt at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/evan-dara/and-i-was-thinking-of-what-it-would-be-like-to-have-such-a-wound-to/) [Evan Dara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/evan-dara/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/guy-knew/evan-dara/#itemlist", "name": "1 Guy Knew Quotes By Evan Dara", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“...and as he swigged another dose, it just kind of came clear to me that the guy was nothing but sadness, really nothing but that, the weakest link in the Great Chain of Being, and that if when raging he was pathetic then in triumph he was tragic; 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