"Can Protagonist think of a single film that……" — David Markson
"Can Protagonist think of a single film that interests him as much as the three-hundredth best book he ever read?"
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13 Quotes by David Markson
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Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in…
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In fact one frequently seemed to gather all sorts of similar information about subjects one had less than profound interest…
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I also believe I met William Gaddis once. He did not look Italian.
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What do any of us ever truly know?
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Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruce—to which in fact…
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You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are…
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You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer that there is no…
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Once, Turner had himself lashed to the mast of a ship for several hours, during a furious storm, so that…
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Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I…
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The morning’s recollection of the emptiness of the day before. Its anticipation of the emptiness of the day to come.
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Doubtless these are inconsequential perplexities. Still, inconsequential perplexities have now and again been known to become the fundamental mood of…
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Once, I had a dream of fame. Generally, even then, I was lonely.
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