Graham Joyce Quotes

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• But there are times in life when a door opens and you are offered a glimpse of the light on the water, and you know…
• The blood in my veins is frozen but it sings of love.
• The thing is, when everyone is trying to persuade you that a thing you know to be true isn't actually true, you start to believe…
• The bluebells made such a pool that the earth had become like water, and all the trees and bushes seemed to have grown out of…
• The mist hung in the air like a prancing unicorn.
• The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition.
• Perhaps living souls had greater phantom powers than the dead.
• That's emails for ya: sometimes they're like an arrow that hits so deep in the target, you can't pull it out.
• Some people feed you with love.
• Rationally speaking, blaming one's behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or the staircase that…
• I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.
• The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.
• Fantasy gets a mixed reception - a lot of fantasy is formulaic but most of the award-winning fantasy on the contrary tends to be the…
• Every day the eye is subject to a thousand tiny shocks as a thousand industries compete for the eye-kick, the visual hook that will lock…
• Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.
• I've been playing 'Doom' for some years.
• The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television…
• I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia.
• Perhaps writers should never be allowed to get together in a workplace context. It's not like studying computer science, after all. The emotions are at…
• No one needs a first edition. Whoever wrote it; even if it was Moses.

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