"Life is bearable even when it's unbearable: that……" — Geoff Dyer
"Life is bearable even when it's unbearable: that is what's so terrible, that is the unbearable thing about it."
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Geoff Dyer
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20 Quotes by Geoff Dyer
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Beware of clichés. Not just the clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as…
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Birds in flight, claims the architect Vincenzo Volentieri, are not between places - they carry their places with them. We…
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He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers…
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People say it's not what happens in your life that matters, it's what you think happened. But this qualification, obviously,…
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Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book…
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When you are lonely, writing can keep you company. It is also a form of self-compensation, a way of making…
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Quite often, ambition operates on a level of irritation. Not even jealousy, just irritation.
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All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge.
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I’m so revolted by writers taking themselves seriously that, as a kind of protest, I’ve deprioritized the role of writing…
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The ideal is to feel at home anywhere, everywhere.
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Never ride a bike with the brakes on. If something is proving too difficult, give up and do something else.…
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Nine times out of 10, the most charming thing to say in any given situation will be the exact opposite…
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More Bearable Quotes
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Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical…
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding.
— James Rachels
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So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will…
— John Green
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Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of…
— Finley Peter Dunne
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Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.
— Francine du Plessix Gray
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The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs, but…
— Robyn Davidson
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The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.
— Jodi Picoult
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You can’t change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn’t make the mistake…
— Gail Caldwell
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My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in…
— Dinaw Mengestu
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Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquility, of…
— John Banville
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The larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment.…
— Henry Hazlitt
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The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself; and to be at…
— Robert Frost
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