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Geoff Dyer Quotes

born 1958 England

Geoff Dyer (born June 5, 1958) is a British writer. He lives in London.

England
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Dave was committed to making it a truly memorable weekend in the sense that he would remember nothing whatsoever about it.

Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It (1993)

The more you covet something, the more certain it is that you’ll lose it, and the more devastating the loss will be when it happens—which it will. (p. 216).

Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It (1993)

When you are lonely, writing can keep you company. It is a form of self-compensation, a way of making up for things—as opposed to making things up—that did not quite happen. (p.11).

Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It (1993)

I should have been happy—I was being paid to be here—but happiness does not respond to that kind of imperative; it is no good telling yourself you should be happy. (p. 225).

Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It (1993)

I had to be on my own, just so that I would not feel as alone. (p. 201).

Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It (1993)

Ruins—antique ruins at least—are what is left when history has moved on. They are no longer at the mercy of history, only of time. (p. 207).

Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It (1993)

They made two thousand years ago seem like yesterday, and yesterday look like today, just as today would, in time, look like tomorrow. (p. 128).

Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It (1993)

I felt I could no longer take the roller-coaster of emotions of travel, its surges of exaltation, its troughs of despondency, it’s large stretches of boredom and inconvenience (p. 202).

Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It (1993)

Once you turn forty...the whole world is water off a duck’s back. Once you turn forty you realize that life is there to be wasted. (p. 165).

Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It (1993)

The best way to learn was by looking, to become articulate in the language of sight. The eye could learn to look after itself. (p. 180).

Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It (1993)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Geoff Dyer (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.