Mysterious Quotes by Eleanor Catton

“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

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

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

“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

“In my experience people are rarely contented to end up where they started.”

— Eleanor Catton

“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

“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

“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

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

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

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

“True feeling is always circular - either circular, or paradoxical - simply because its cause and its expression are tow halves of the very…

— Eleanor Catton