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Alexander Theroux Quotes
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Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both (Alexander Theroux Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people (Alexander Theroux Quotes)
Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all (Alexander Theroux Quotes)
The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality (Alexander Theroux Quotes)
There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage (Alexander Theroux Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs? (Alexander Theroux Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time (Alexander Theroux Quotes)