Alexander Theroux Professions : Novelist Born : August 17, 1939 Browse All Authors Top 35 quotes by Alexander Theroux The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality. Alexander Theroux have-faith men reality Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both. Alexander Theroux vagueness yellow It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy. Alexander Theroux would-be pet names Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people. Alexander Theroux irritated hair people I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means of passing time. Alexander Theroux reading mean needs I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason. Alexander Theroux injustice hate hypocrisy The parrot holds its food for prim consumption as daintily as any debutante, [with] a predilection for pot roast, hashed-brown potatoes, duck skin, butter, hoisin sauce, sesame seed oil, bananas and human thumb. Alexander Theroux oil ducks skins New Hampshire has always been cheap, mean, rural, small-minded, and reactionary. It's one of the few states in the nation with neither a sales tax nor an income tax. Social services are totally inadequate there, it ranks at the bottom in state aid to education--the state is literally shaped like a dunce cap--and its medical assistance program is virtually nonexistent. Expecting aid for the poor there is like looking for an egg under a basilisk.... The state encourages skinflints, cheapskates, shutwallets, and pinched little joykillers who move there as a tax refuge to save money. Alexander Theroux eggs mean moving Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all. Alexander Theroux differences artist men The ears, which master the face of a dunce, are that part of the head which most publishes stupidity. Alexander Theroux stupidity ears faces The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to demand is either whim, the needy plebiscite of instantly famished drunks, or pregnancy. Alexander Theroux chinese holiday pregnancy The particular source of frustration of women observing their own self-study and measuring their worth as women by the distance they kept from men necessitated that a distance be kept, and so what vindicated them also poured fuel on the furnace of their rage. One delight presumed another dissatisfaction, but their hatefulness confessed to their own lack of power to please. They hated men because they needed husbands, and they loathed the men they chased away for going. Alexander Theroux distance husband men 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 lonely real cities We all end up living secret lives. We create what we are willing to admire and admiring what we shouldn't confess to the secret ofour own sin, our own insufficiency, our own sadness. We all end up taking our secrets into the world and handing them over to strangers, only to realize it's often too late to claim them back. The very nature of time passing is sad beyond words. Memories mean they're gone. Alexander Theroux sadness time memories Silence is the unbearable repartee. Alexander Theroux repartee unbearable silence Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
