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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
True victory does not come from defeating an enemy, true victory comes from giving love and changing an enemies heart.
— Morihei Ueshiba
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
Death by misadventure sounds like a hopeful possibility.
--Marjorie Branell-Markson — Jennifer A. Girardin
--Marjorie Branell-Markson — Jennifer A. Girardin
Please don't complicate the investigation by offering an explanation that might actually be true.
--Marjorie Branell-Markson — Jennifer A. Girardin
--Marjorie Branell-Markson — Jennifer A. Girardin
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
— David Markson
Still, how I nearly felt. In the midst of all that looking.
— David Markson
In the land of tigers the lion cannot be king.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.
— David Markson
I like Mr. Dickens' books much better than yours, Papa. Said one of Thackeray's daughters.
— David Markson
One never does solve what it is about watching fires, really.
— David Markson
Tolstoy's wife copied out the entire manuscript of War and Peace in longhand seven times.
— David Markson
They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
— Emily Bronte
What do any of us ever truly know?
— 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
An actress always knows when she's hit it and mostly you haven't; but once or twice I think I hit it right, so maybe that's good enough for one life.
— Helen Hayes
Christ, this is all there is. This is everything.
— Tessa Bailey
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
Concluded Marguerite Yourcenar. — David Markson
How can I tell what I think until I see what I say?
— David Markson
The internet is a wild land with its own games, languages and gestures through which we are starting to share common feelings.
— Ai Weiwei
In the early 1980s, I spent a year working as an assistant at the Elaine Markson Literary Agency.
— Joanna Scott
Once, I had a dream of fame. Generally, even then, I was lonely.
— David Markson
In fact one frequently seemed to gather all sorts of similar information about subjects one had less than profound interest in.
— David Markson
If forced to choose, Giacometti once said, he would rescue a cat from a burning building before a Rembrandt.
— David Markson