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The ears, which master the face of a dunce, are that part of the head which most publishes stupidity.
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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There is a terrible blindness in the love that wants only to accommodate. It's not only to do with omissions and half-truths. It implants a lack of being in the speaker and robs the self of an identity without which it is impossible for one to grow close to another.
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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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Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.
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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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If on a friend’s bookshelf You cannot find Joyce or Sterne Cervantes, Rabelais, or Burton, You are in danger, face the fact, So kick him first or punch him hard And from him hide behind a curtain.
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Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences between people, not from overwhelming inequalities... it was envy that forced them to emulate each other, not esteem.
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A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a hostage to a certain delusion.
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Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs?
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