Quote by Russell Smith Download Open image ““What kind of theorist?' 'The worst kind,' murmured De Courcy. 'A prancing theorist.”” — Russell Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Richard Papen: As it happened, I knew Gartrell. He was a bad painter and a vicious gossip, with a vocabulary composed almost entirely of… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling. HENRI POINCARÉ (1854–1912)” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Talkativeness is a symptom of deep-seated pessimism. Without it there would be no pessimistic literature.” — Albert Vigoleis Thelen Copy Share Image
“The historians criticized a tendency, as they phrased it, to too rapid generalization. Other people blamed my method; and those who complimented me were… — André Gide Copy Share Image
“Hrun the Barbarian, who was practilly an academic by Hub standards in that he could think without moving his lips.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely impossible to adapt… — Mervin Miller Copy Share Image
“he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naïve incompetence and it… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“It took me a long time to understand that she wasn't being incoherent or contradictory, but rather that it was I myself, arrogant class renegade that I was, who tried to force her discourse into a foreign kind of coherence, one more compatible with my values—that incoherence appears to exist only when you fail to reconstruct the logic that lies… — Édouard Louis Copy Share
“[He] is the worst kind of asshole they make - the kind who is completely oblivious to how he sounds, the kind who is… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pretended I couldn't write a novel, people said I couldn't write. When I acted like a liar, they called me a liar. When I acted like a rich man, they started… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share
“Which meant I spent my spare time learning theory, studying dead languages and reading books like Essays on The Metaphysical by John "never saw… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
“He detested objective truths, the burden of argument, sustained reasoning. He disliked demonstrating, he wanted to convince no one. Others are a dialectician’s invention.” — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
If you tell your husband or boyfriend for his whole life that he needn't worry about his clothes, that he couldn't possibly understand them,… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Canadian writers don't live in gated mansions; you can just talk to them when you see them lining up at the Second Cup. — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
I was given a thick paperback copy of the 'Guinness Book of Records' when I was 11 years old, and I read it gluttonously,… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
What I would love to see is art that explicitly addresses not personal intimacies but anonymous intimacies: the vast collections of facts about you… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Indeed, the whole point of the man bun, I have surmised, is to assert a high proficiency at yoga. There are no yoga-achievement badges,… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Anything that encourages a boy to open a book, in a world of more violent and therefore more compelling video games, is something I'm… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Verisimilitude is something I am constantly seeking in fiction. I am looking for surface detail that makes something seem real. — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Increasingly, to dismiss any popular artistic style is seen as the worst kind of snobbery. And snobbery, it goes without saying, is unacceptable in… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
What I don't understand is why men have decided that they like wearing hats indoors. It makes no sense to me. — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
I am indeed completely nuts, but that doesn't mean I don't care about how I look. Sometimes, I admit, I will privilege appearance over… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Everyone likes to hear that their eccentricities and their addictions are simply evidence of their sensitive artistic nature. — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
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