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.
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, bl… - Alexander Theroux
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, bl…
- Alexander Theroux
The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality. - Alexander Theroux
The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality.
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 pun… - Alexander Theroux
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 pun…
Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time. - Alexander Theroux
Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.
Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences between people, … - Alexander Theroux
Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences between people, …
There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage. - Alexander Theroux
There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.
Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc. - Alexander Theroux
Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc.
Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both. - Alexander Theroux
Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.
I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason. - Alexander Theroux
I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.
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