"But I do enjoy words—some words for their……" — Alasdair Gray
"But I do enjoy words—some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem much richer than our experiences of the things they represent—"
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Alasdair Gray
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17 Quotes by Alasdair Gray
Alasdair Gray has 17 quotes on this site.
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I ought to have more love before I die. I've not had enough.
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Life becomes a habit. You get up, dress, eat, go tae work, clock in etcetera etcetera automatically, and think about…
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Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.
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A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a…
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I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.
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Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses.
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Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of milk into…
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No, ordinary behaviour. The efficient half eats the less efficient half and grows stronger. War is just a violent way…
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Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already…
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I take a less gloomy view. A good life means fighting to be human under growing difficulties. A lot of…
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Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels.
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Are there many people without illness or disability who sit at home in the evening with clenched fists, continually changing…
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More Dawn Quotes
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When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you…
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I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens,…
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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a…
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It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.
— George Ade
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
— Wendell Berry
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
— Ambrose Bierce
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It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the…
— Phillips Brooks
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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it…
— Saul Alinsky
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The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.
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Expect the dawn of a new beginning in the dark nights of life.
— Lloyd John Ogilvie
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Does this mean we will always understand our challenges? Won't all of us, sometime, have reason to ask, 'O God,…
— Robert D. Hales
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