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- Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had to…
- Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract thought, but because…
- Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long walks). Hold a Christmas party every year at which you…
- The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy - rather like…
- You don't need to know this - but here goes: due to some acquired infantilism, I feel compelled to fall asleep listening to the radio.…
- I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.
- The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.
- Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world.
- The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions become very repetitive. It seems…
- I write as someone who has no more time for repressive Islam than he does for repressive Christianity or Judaism, but at least look at…
- If we bought everything on the Internet, our eyes and mouths and nostrils would probably begin to film over with a tegument - one initially…
- Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands…
- Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only an…
- One of the most heartening phenomena in today's Britain is the great diversity of the modern nerd - the nerd is out and proud, and…
- What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies narrative and the…
- I'm going to end up like one of those old weirdos who lives in a network of tunnels burrowed through trash - yet I do…
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster