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Geoff Dyer Quotes

There are the tears of rage when books get praised when they're so obviously garbage. But then there are so many more that continue to move me: the end of 'Paradise Lost,' 'The Ruined Cottage' by Wordsworth, Prospero's 'Our revels now are ended' speech near the end of 'The Tempest.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: June 5, 1958

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Me Tears End Speech Paradise Lost

My family was perfect.

I think hard-core capitalism tends to commercialize everything.

Capitalism Think Everything I Think

I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish mistakes.

Time Mistakes Look Back Poor Us

I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.

Love Time Words Poetry You Choice

I like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don't really know where wittiness is constructive.

Matthew McConaughey

Think Know Witty Cynicism Where

I don't look at it as, 'Oh, I'm gonna keep making beats, and I'm gonna do that until I die.' But that's how some people look at it - gonna just keep making beats, get placement after placement.

People Die Look Some People Get How

I remember Detroit feeling really unsafe, feeling scared a lot. Our house was broken into, our car was stolen, we had to get a watchdog, we would get beat up in the street, I had my bike stolen. There was just a lot of real anarchy on the streets and sidewalks.

Car Bike Broken Remember House Real

My dad has a lot of foresight and decided that I would not do any shows in Mumbai till I became a singer and got to sing my own songs. He knew that if I started earning money from shows, I would not have the time and aggression to rough it out to become a singer.

Time Money My Own Become Mumbai Out

The Tea Party ended up being a shill for corporate America.

Tea America Party Up Being Ended

I am not as cross about Thatcher now as I was in the '80s. Begrudgingly, I can see that some of her policies helped modernise Britain.

I Am I Can Now See Her Cross

If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press.

Hate Wrong Right Everyone Agree

If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that.

Joseph Wambaugh

You Down Dangerous Right Years Take

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