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Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book? asked Mrs. Dodypol. It depends, says I, how much you used the dictionary before you read it.
Alexander Theroux
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Alexander Theroux
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 17
Novelist
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Medford
Massachusetts
Alexander Louis Theroux
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Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all.
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I thought... their elegance... lies not so much in their clothes as in their bodies, and their bodies have received it, and continue to unceasingly receive it, from their souls, which are just like yours, lovely Simonetta.
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Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.
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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.
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I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.
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One's style holds one, thankfully, at bay from the enemies of it but not from the stupid crucifixions by those who must willfully misunderstand it.
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Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.
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Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.
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The ears, which master the face of a dunce, are that part of the head which most publishes stupidity.
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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.
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September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.
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There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.
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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.
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Reviewing books is all about coziness. It is all of it a kind of caucus race. Women review women, Jewish writers review and praise Jewish writers, blacks review blacks, etc.
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Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs?
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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.
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It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.
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Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?
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