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Silence is the unbearable repartee.
Alexander Theroux / Novelist
Repartee
Silence
Unbearable
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Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.
Alexander Theroux / Novelist
Vagueness
Yellow
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There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.
Alexander Theroux / Novelist
Marriage
Being Lonely
Loneliness
Failed
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The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality.
Alexander Theroux / Novelist
Men
Have Faith
Reality
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Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs?
Alexander Theroux / Novelist
Burning
Fire
Hands
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Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.
Alexander Theroux / Novelist
Hair
Irritated
Irritating
People
People Know Being
Poses
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Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.
Alexander Theroux / Novelist
Loneliness
Lonely
Privacy
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I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.
Alexander Theroux / Novelist
Hate
Hypocrisy
Injustice
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I kneel to my Lord because I am such a failure. I pray, I hope, I look to the Gospels.
Alexander Theroux / Novelist
Looks
Lord
Praying
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Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.
Alexander Theroux / Novelist
Belonging
Essence
Hypocrisy
Problem
Snobbery
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Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?
Alexander Theroux / Novelist
Art
People
Taken
Complete
Art People Never
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Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all.
Alexander Theroux / Novelist
Men
Artist
Differences
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The ears, which master the face of a dunce, are that part of the head which most publishes stupidity.
Alexander Theroux / Novelist
Ears
Faces
Stupidity
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Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc.
Alexander Theroux / Novelist
Agents
Book
Editors
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It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.
Alexander Theroux / Novelist
Pet
Dummy
Eating
Names
Would Be
Anyway
Ventriloquist
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September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.
Alexander Theroux / Novelist
Beautiful
Flower
Regret
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Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.
Alexander Theroux / Novelist
Faculty
Needs
Shows
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A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a hostage to a certain delusion.
Alexander Theroux / Novelist
Eye
Self
World
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I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means of passing time.
Alexander Theroux / Novelist
Mean
Needs
Reading
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Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.
Alexander Theroux / Novelist
Book
Dictionary
Use
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One's style holds one, thankfully, at bay from the enemies of it but not from the stupid crucifixions by those who must willfully misunderstand it.
Alexander Theroux / Novelist
Enemy
Stupid
Style
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Reviewing books is all about coziness. It is all of it a kind of caucus race. Women review women, Jewish writers review and praise Jewish writers, blacks review blacks, etc.
Alexander Theroux / Novelist
Book
Etc
Race
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Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion, hung washing, the caliber of a bullet, teething beads.
Alexander Theroux / Novelist
Self
Style
Views
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If on a friend’s bookshelf You cannot find Joyce or Sterne Cervantes, Rabelais, or Burton, You are in danger, face the fact, So kick him first or punch him hard And from him hide behind a curtain.
Alexander Theroux / Novelist
Faces
Facts
Firsts
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The parrot holds its food for prim consumption as daintily as any debutante, [with] a predilection for pot roast, hashed-brown potatoes, duck skin, butter, hoisin sauce, sesame seed oil, bananas and human thumb.
Alexander Theroux / Novelist
Ducks
Oil
Skins
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The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to demand is either whim, the needy plebiscite of instantly famished drunks, or pregnancy.
Alexander Theroux / Novelist
Chinese
Holiday
Pregnancy
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I thought... their elegance... lies not so much in their clothes as in their bodies, and their bodies have received it, and continue to unceasingly receive it, from their souls, which are just like yours, lovely Simonetta.
Alexander Theroux / Novelist
Clothes
Lying
Soul
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Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences between people, not from overwhelming inequalities... it was envy that forced them to emulate each other, not esteem.
Alexander Theroux / Novelist
Artist
Circles
Differences
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There is a terrible blindness in the love that wants only to accommodate. It's not only to do with omissions and half-truths. It implants a lack of being in the speaker and robs the self of an identity without which it is impossible for one to grow close to another.
Alexander Theroux / Novelist
Identity
Omission
Self
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Brent Berlin and Paul Kay in Basic Color Terms demonstrate exhaustively and empirically, the very simple thesis that anywhere in the world, as a language develops and acquires names for color, the colors always enter in the same order. The most primitive are black and white. Then red. Then either green or yellow.
Alexander Theroux / Novelist
Black And White
Order
Simple
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To value the tradition of, and the discipline required for, the craft of fiction seems today pointless. The real Arcadia is a lonely, mountainous plateau, overbouldered and strewn with the skulls of sheep slain for vellum and old bitten pinions that tried to be quills. It's forty rough miles by mule from Athens, a city where there's a fair, a movie house, cotton candy.
Alexander Theroux / Novelist
Cities
Lonely
Real
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We all end up living secret lives. We create what we are willing to admire and admiring what we shouldn't confess to the secret ofour own sin, our own insufficiency, our own sadness. We all end up taking our secrets into the world and handing them over to strangers, only to realize it's often too late to claim them back. The very nature of time passing is sad beyond words. Memories mean they're gone.
Alexander Theroux / Novelist
Time
Memories
Sadness
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Adultery is the vice of equivocation. It is not marriage but a mockery of it, a merging that mixes love and dread together like jackstraws. There is no understanding of contentment in adultery.... You belong to each other in what together you've made of a third identity that almost immediately cancels your own. There is a law in art that proves it. Two colors are proven complimentary only when forming that most desolate of all colors--neutral gray.
Alexander Theroux / Novelist
Art
Color
Law
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The particular source of frustration of women observing their own self-study and measuring their worth as women by the distance they kept from men necessitated that a distance be kept, and so what vindicated them also poured fuel on the furnace of their rage. One delight presumed another dissatisfaction, but their hatefulness confessed to their own lack of power to please. They hated men because they needed husbands, and they loathed the men they chased away for going.
Alexander Theroux / Novelist
Men
Distance
Husband
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New Hampshire has always been cheap, mean, rural, small-minded, and reactionary. It's one of the few states in the nation with neither a sales tax nor an income tax. Social services are totally inadequate there, it ranks at the bottom in state aid to education--the state is literally shaped like a dunce cap--and its medical assistance program is virtually nonexistent. Expecting aid for the poor there is like looking for an egg under a basilisk.... The state encourages skinflints, cheapskates, shutwallets, and pinched little joykillers who move there as a tax refuge to save money.
Alexander Theroux / Novelist
Eggs
Mean
Moving
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