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Quite Quotes by Geoff Dyer
- Beware of clichés. Not just the clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as well as expression. There are…
- He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was correcting…
- People say it's not what happens in your life that matters, it's what you think happened. But this qualification, obviously, did not go far enough.…
- When you are lonely, writing can keep you company. It is also a form of self-compensation, a way of making up for things—as opposed to…
- Quite often, ambition operates on a level of irritation. Not even jealousy, just irritation.
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- We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it… — Julian Assange
- Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course,… — Rowan Atkinson
- I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit… — David Attenborough
- I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me… — Margaret Atwood
- If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it… — Margaret Atwood
- There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you… — Margaret Atwood
- Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich,… — Margaret Atwood
- We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for… — Margaret Atwood
- You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden