"Was it really some other person I was……" — David Markson
"Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?"
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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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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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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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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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More Abide Quotes
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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
— Arthur Ashe
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Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear…
— Cecil Beaton
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A young woman who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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You're president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an…
— Joe Biden
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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
— Theodore Bikel
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I cannot abide anyone treating another human being like a piece of dirt, whatever the context.
— Jo Brand
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
— Franz Grillparzer
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All our moments are last moments. We abide in the forever leaving of our own coming? We can put our…
— Jens Jensen
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If we then let the words of Christ abide in us, they will stir us up in prayer.
— Reuben Archer Torrey
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If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation. Let this be one aspect of our daily…
— John Owen
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People have a pathway to citizenship right now- It's to abide by the immigration laws, and if they have a…
— Bob Goodlatte
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As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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