Behinds Quote by Alexander Theroux

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

— Alexander Theroux

Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.

— Alexander Theroux

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary…

— Alexander Theroux

“...we are willing to lose ourselves in another as we exchange fates with one whom we love but on whom our heart is nevertheless…

— Alexander Theroux

Adultery is the vice of equivocation. It is not marriage but a mockery of it, a merging that mixes love and dread together like…

— Alexander Theroux

The particular source of frustration of women observing their own self-study and measuring their worth as women by the distance they kept from men…

— Alexander Theroux

The parrot holds its food for prim consumption as daintily as any debutante, [with] a predilection for pot roast, hashed-brown potatoes, duck skin, butter,…

— Alexander Theroux

Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.

— Alexander Theroux

The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to demand is…

— Alexander Theroux

Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

— Alexander Theroux

“. . . it is called 'camel case' or 'intercapping' -- of writing small letters next to large in the same word, as in…

— Alexander Theroux

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

— Alexander Theroux