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The morning's recollection of the emptiness of the day before. Its anticipation of the emptiness of the day to come.
— David Markson
Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover ... or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?
— David Markson
Can Protagonist think of a single film that interests him as much as the three-hundredth best book he ever read?
— David Markson
In the beginning, sometimes I left messages in the street.
— David Markson
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
— David Markson
Reading scripts is actually quite a relaxing part of the job. Strangely relaxing. This is a whole different ball game.
— Jack O'Connell
Still, how I nearly felt. In the midst of all that looking.
— David Markson
What do any of us ever truly know?
— David Markson
For a long time, I was trapped in this struggle with my emotions about the single person in the world who was my family.
— Hanna Perlstein Marcus
He's right. I'm a worthless bastard fathered by a bastard even more worthless than I am. [Fury]
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
Tolstoy's wife copied out the entire manuscript of War and Peace in longhand seven times.
— David Markson
I don't want to have the terrible limitation of those who live merely from what can make sense. Not I: I want an invented truth.
— Clarice Lispector
A lot of people feel very good about Mitt Romney and I think he's going to do a great job.
— Donald Trump
One never does solve what it is about watching fires, really.
— David Markson
I like Mr. Dickens' books much better than yours, Papa. Said one of Thackeray's daughters.
— David Markson
Happiness and sorrow are two sides of the same coin called life. Whatever befalls you, walk on unattached.
— Sanchita Pandey
You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.
— David Markson
How can I tell what I think until I see what I say?
— David Markson
Or was it possibly...nothing more than a read?
— David Markson
He had a face roughly the shape and color of a clumsily peeled Idaho potato, and he had a jaw like the end of a cigarette carton.
— David Markson
Oedipus gouges out his eyes, Jocasta hangs herself, both guiltless; the play has come to a harmonious conclusion. Wrote Schiller.
— David Markson
Unquestionably it would have been Mary Magdalene who did the dishes at the Last Supper.Concluded Marguerite Yourcenar. — David Markson
It takes so little to undermine public confidence in a man.
— Agatha Christie
Once, I had a dream of fame. Generally, even then, I was lonely.
— David Markson
I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms.
— Kristin Scott Thomas
In fact one frequently seemed to gather all sorts of similar information about subjects one had less than profound interest in.
— David Markson
The best way to fill time is to waste it.
— Marguerite Duras
Was it John Searle who called Jacques Derrida the sort of philosopher who gives bullshit a bad name?
— David Markson
If forced to choose, Giacometti once said, he would rescue a cat from a burning building before a Rembrandt.
— David Markson
Is that why you're here?" Ben blurted "To glean one of us?" Scythe Faraday offered an unreadable smile. "I'm here for dinner.
— Neal Shusterman
It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe
— Richard Dawkins
Novelty has charms that our mind can hardly withstand.
— William Makepeace Thackeray