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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
All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood.
— Lucy Grealy
I'll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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
Please don't complicate the investigation by offering an explanation that might actually be true.--Marjorie Branell-Markson — Jennifer A. Girardin
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
— David Markson
It takes a lot of time to get experience, and once you have it you ought to go on using it.
— Benjamin Minge Duggar
Still, how I nearly felt. In the midst of all that looking.
— David Markson
You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.
— David Markson
By pursuing the things you love, all the other things in life will fall into order.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I like Mr. Dickens' books much better than yours, Papa. Said one of Thackeray's daughters.
— David Markson
Mission exists because worship doesn't.
— John Piper
One never does solve what it is about watching fires, really.
— David Markson
In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.
— James Scott Bell
Tolstoy's wife copied out the entire manuscript of War and Peace in longhand seven times.
— David Markson
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
In fact one frequently seemed to gather all sorts of similar information about subjects one had less than profound interest in.
— David Markson
How can I tell what I think until I see what I say?
— 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
In the early 1980s, I spent a year working as an assistant at the Elaine Markson Literary Agency.
— Joanna Scott
If forced to choose, Giacometti once said, he would rescue a cat from a burning building before a Rembrandt.
— David Markson
Magic is dangerous- but love is more dangerous still
— Cassandra Clare
Kismet is closing.""What's Kismet?"
"Fate," he says.
"What?"
"The name of the cafe. — Stephanie Perkins
Was it John Searle who called Jacques Derrida the sort of philosopher who gives bullshit a bad name?
— David Markson
Every time we tell anybody to cheer up, things might be worse, we run away for fear we might be asked to specify how.
— Franklin P. Adams
Once, I had a dream of fame. Generally, even then, I was lonely.
— David Markson