All Alexander Theroux Quotes
- Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion,… Anger
- It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy. Dummy
- Brent Berlin and Paul Kay in Basic Color Terms demonstrate exhaustively and empirically, the very simple thesis that anywhere in the world, as a language… Acquires
- Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both. Both
- Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away? Art
- There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage. Failed
- Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people. Irritating
- I thought... their elegance... lies not so much in their clothes as in their bodies, and their bodies have received it, and continue to unceasingly… Bodies
- Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs? Blacksmith
- One's style holds one, thankfully, at bay from the enemies of it but not from the stupid crucifixions by those who must willfully misunderstand it. Bay
- Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences between people, not from overwhelming… Artist
- Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time. Bad
- A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a hostage to a certain delusion. Certain
- Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging. All
- Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before… Asked
- September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret. Always Felt
- If on a friend’s bookshelf You cannot find Joyce or Sterne Cervantes, Rabelais, or Burton, You are in danger, face the fact, So kick him… Behind
- Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all. All
- Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing. Accomplishing
- The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality. Cuckolded
- He took up his pen, which seemed to parch like a martyrin his hand. He began to write, nevertheless, addressing the nine-and-ninety lies of the… Addressing