“We spend our entire lives thinking about death. Without that project to divert us, I expect we would all be dreadfully bored.… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“The stage is not real life, and the stage is not a copy of real life. Just like the statue , the… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“Suffering, he thought later, could rob a man of his empathy, could turn him selfish, could make him depreciate all other sufferers.” — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“He wondered what assumptions she was forming, what picture was emerging from this scant constellation of his life.” — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“He often acted out of impulse just so that he could then devote his leisure hours to mulling why; he relished self-analysis,… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“Every little thing now has to be about maximising your potential, and perfecting yourself, and honing yourself, and getting the best deal… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Remember that anybody who is clever enough to set you free is clever enough to enslave you. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
My mum was a children's librarian, so I spent a lot of time in the library. My reading life, because of my… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I'm a Libra. I'm happy to be an air sign, but I do think I have a little too much air in… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“I guess I’m just a little worried that we might be doing this for different reasons,’ Shelley said at last. ‘But that’s… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“We spend our entire lives thinking about death. Without that project to divert us, I expect we would all be dreadfully bored. We would… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I often feel intellectually frustrated when I'm in a position where I'm not moving forward; when I'm not enquiring about something. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th century. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“own reputation, by associating himself with a story of cuckoldry, blackmail, murder, and revenge, and nor did he spare a thought for how Balfour… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“In my experience people are rarely contented to end up where they started.” — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“His temperament was deeply nostalgic, not for for his own past, but for past ages; he was cynical of the present, fearful of the… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“What was glimpsed in Aquarius—what was envisioned, believed in, prophesied, predicted, doubted, and forewarned—is made, in Pisces, manifest. Those solitary visions that, but a… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“Gaining control isn't the exciting part. Sleeping with a minor isn't exciting because you get to boss them around. It's exciting because you're risking… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Astrology's a moving system that depends on where you're looking at it from on Earth. My horoscope here in London would be completely different… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
As an artist, you need to be not at all entitled in your relation with the work. So money is kind of worrying. You… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
The nice thing about the zodiac as a system is it is quite comprehensive as a range of impulses and psychological states it can… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“True feeling is always circular - either circular, or paradoxical - simply because its cause and its expression are tow halves of the very… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
