"You can learn more by going to the……" — David Markson
"You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes."
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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 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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More Emerson Quotes
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I didn't care at all about losing, but I just didn't want Emerson to feel bad, You know, I didn't…
— Teri Hatcher
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The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero.…
— James Hillman
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There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception of yourself by which all the facts of your life…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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I love the fact that it starts from there, and you don't know where it's gonna go. Wait long enough…
— Hector Elizondo
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Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.
— Howard Mumford Jones
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I could...see in Emerson...that had he lived in those days when the world was made, he might have offered some…
— Herman Melville
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President Heber J. Grant often quoted the following statement, which is sometimes attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson: “That which we…
— Heber J. Grant
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"All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority…
— Emma Goldman
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Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged…
— Leon Edel
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India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian…
— Lin Yutang
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The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
— David Allen
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To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get your emotions going. To be enthusiastic every day…
— Jim Valvano
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