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The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality.
— Alexander Theroux
Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs?
— Alexander Theroux
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
Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.
— Alexander Theroux
for too easily we come to love love first and not...that from which it comes.
— Alexander Theroux
That night God and Satan fought long hours for his soul. And God conquered. It was only left to be determined which of the two was God.
— Alexander Theroux
September: it was the most beautiful of words, he'd always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.
— Alexander Theroux
Silence is the unbearable repartee.
— Alexander Theroux
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
Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all.
— Alexander Theroux
Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.
— Alexander Theroux
Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined
with the imperative of accomplishing nothing. — Alexander Theroux
with the imperative of accomplishing nothing. — Alexander Theroux
Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc.
— Alexander Theroux
God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
— Billie Holiday
Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.
— Alexander Theroux
The complexity of language, he thought to himself, lies not in its subject matter but in our knotted understanding.
— Alexander Theroux
When people call up Rush Limbaugh and say, 'It's an honor to speak to you,' I want to shoot myself.
— Alexander Theroux
Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?
— Alexander Theroux
I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.
— Alexander Theroux
The best reason for disbelieving in God is that he never gave us enough time in life to pursue enough knowledge to find sufficient truth.
— Alexander Theroux
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
Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.
— Alexander Theroux
It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.
— Alexander Theroux
If you have to ask yourself if it's love, it's not.
— Kate McGahan
Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.
— Constance Baker Motley
Pedantry. The delight in living. Brio. The chance to act, to mime, to mock, to mimic.
— Alexander Theroux
many of these excellent young people could not, as a general rule, either read or write, as these activities are understood in our best universities.
— Bernard Bailyn
I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
That is what always happens: we never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated.
— Jorge Luis Borges
There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.
— Alexander Theroux
Hope encourages men to endure and attempt everything; in depriving them of it, or in making it too distant, you deprive them of their very soul.
— Maurice De Saxe
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
We are willing to lose ourselves in another as we exchange fates with one whom we love but on whom our heart is nevertheless impaled.
— Alexander Theroux