English - Writer | June 5, 1958 -
I think I do have a sort of terrible propensity for boredom and for being bored, even though I am absolutely of the opinion that one shouldn't be bored and that there is no excuse for it and that it is a personal failing.
Geoff Dyer
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It would be nice to turn off that incessant churning of consciousness.
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I think I can recognize when a piece is at a state of completion.
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I've never been much drawn towards satire of any kind.
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Earnest people are always a bit on the thick side in my experience.
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Writing, for me, has always been a way of not having a career.
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What I've really liked doing is combining what you might call art criticism or music criticism with something that is happening in real life.
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It's funny, because people always say when they meet me, having read me - or they read me, having met me - that they are struck by how the tone is pretty similar, in real life and in the books.
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Generally, I'm not anti the novel.
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My reading of serious books about serious music is seriously compromised by the way that I can't understand any musical theory. Any mentions of D major or C minor are meaningless to me.
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I've always had this belief that you want to write about universal truths.
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One of the things I've really come to realise is that the chances of arriving at a universal truth are increased if you remain absolutely faithful to the contingencies of your own experience and the vagaries of your own nature.
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