Donald Antrim Quotes

• There is nothing more seductive — and dangerous — than being listened to.

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  Seductive, Dangerous

  Donald Antrim (2011). “The Verificationist: A Novel”, p.49, Macmillan

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• But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It obliterates whatever isn't racing. Life is the metaphor for the race.

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  Cycling, Race, Missing

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• The simple question 'What color do you want to paint that upstairs room?' might, if we follow things to their logical conclusions, be stated: 'How do I live, knowing that I will one day die and leave you?

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  Simple, Color, Knowing

  Donald Antrim (2011). “The Verificationist: A Novel”, p.11, Macmillan

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• Have you ever noticed?--people, no matter how beautiful or desirable, invariably will, if observed closely while going about their daily business of keeping alive, begin to seem like monsters.

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  Beautiful, People, Monsters

  Donald Antrim (2011). “The Verificationist: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan

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• It is true that there is nothing like a blaze in the hearth to soothe the nerves and restore order to a house.

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  Heart, Order, House

  Donald Antrim (2013). “The Hundred Brothers”, p.122, Granta Books

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• We eat pancakes to escape loneliness, yet within moments we want nothing more than our freedom from ever having so much as thought about pancakes. Nothing can prevent us, after eating pancakes, from feeling the most awful regret. After eating pancakes, our great mission in life becomes the repudiation of the pancakes and everything served along with them, the bacon and the syrup and the sausage and coffee and jellies and jams. But these things are beneath mention, compared with the pancakes themselves. It is the pancake--Pancakes! Pancakes!--that we never learn to respect.

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  Regret, Loneliness, Coffee

  Donald Antrim (2011). “The Verificationist: A Novel”, p.66, Macmillan

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• Choice, with its inevitable invitations to loss, is always such a trial.

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  Loss, Choices, Trials

  Donald Antrim (2011). “The Verificationist: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan

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• There is such a thing as the courage in remaining baffled.

  Donald Antrim

  Baffled

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