"The railway was part scalpel, part movie camera,……" — Philip Sington
"The railway was part scalpel, part movie camera, slicing the city open, parading its inner workings at fifty frames per second. It was on the S-Bahn that she felt least abandoned, as if the act of travelling turned back the clock, and brought her nearer to the future she had lost."
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Philip Sington
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12 Quotes by Philip Sington
Philip Sington has 12 quotes on this site.
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The future can always wait so long as the here-and-now is rapturous.
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I have found that in fiction one is freer to speak the truth, if only because in fiction the truth…
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I was already at an age when putting off anything was a bad idea.
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To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness.
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One of the joys of being in love is that it clarifies your priorities. Complication arises from not knowing what…
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One thing I knew about the novelist’s task: when in doubt, write; when empty, write; when afraid, write. Nothing is…
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I wanted her body and soul, but body first.
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Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the…
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And then they would watch her closely as the dark, coagulated masses took form before her eyes, became flesh and…
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All writers are insecure, the male ones especially. It's well known. Why else would they spend so much time on…
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We drank our coffee the Russian way. That is to say we had vodka before it and vodka afterwards.
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My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
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As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin…
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Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned…
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Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours.…
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Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we…
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