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Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “And we realize that we thought we were the only changing thing, the only variable, in the world; that the objects and people in our lives are there for our pleasure, like the playing pieces of a game, and cannot move of their own accord; that they are held in place by our need for them, by our love. How stupid.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “By his forties, all he has managed to grow is a gentle sense of himself, akin to the transparent carapace of a soft-shelled crab.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “Boredom is the only real tragedy for a writer; everything else is material.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “Prizes aren’t love. Because people who never met you can’t love you. The slots for winners are already set, from here until Judgment Day.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “Where is the real Less? Less the young man terrified of love? The dead-serious Less of twenty-five years ago? Well, he has not packed him at all. After all these years, Less doesn’t even know where he’s stored.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “Who can ever say, this is the last? Only one is true, but all of them feel true, and the tears we shed are equal every time.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “I do not know what joins the parts of an atom, but it seems what.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “Prizes aren’t love. Because people who never met you can’t love you.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “We think we know people, and dismiss the scenes as aberrations, as the lightning strikes of madness, but surely we are wrong. Surely these are the truest moments of their lives.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “The restaurant sits on a rock above the river and is very old and water stained in ways that would delight a painter and trouble a contractor.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “More likable, make Swift more likable. That’s what everyone’s saying; nobody cares what this character suffers. But how do you do it? It’s like making oneself more likable. And at fifty, Less muses drowsily, you’re as likable as you’re going to get.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “We all recognize grief in moments that should be celebrations; it is the salt in the pudding.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it’s unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole person we cannot go to: the one we love. So instead we seek out allies, even among strangers and wives, fellow patients who, if they can’t touch the edge of our particular sorrow, have felt something that cuts nearly as deep.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “Less knows so well the pleasures of youth – danger, excitement, losing oneself in a dark club with a pill, a shot, a stranger’s mouth – and, with Robert and his friends, the pleasures of age – comfort and ease, beauty and taste, old friends and old stories and wine, whiskey, sunsets over the water. His entire life, he has alternated between the two.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “His first response to Peter was to ask: “How did they even know I was gay?” He asked this from his front porch, wearing a kimono.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “The shock was akin to that of buying, out of duty, a novel written by a dull and uninspired acquaintance and finding there passages of heartrending beauty and rapture that one could never imagine coming from such a tedious person.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “Nothing has happened in right field all season, which is why he was put there: a kind of athletic Canada.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “It is a bad musical, but, like a bad lay, a bad musical can still do its job perfectly well.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “One person after another came up and said his mother was at peace. His mother’s friends: each with her own peculiar spiked or curled white hairdo, like a dahlia show.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “He kisses – how do I explain it? Like someone in love. Like he has nothing to lose. Like someone who has just learned a foreign language and can use only the present tense and only the second person. Only now, only you.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “We have no heart at seventeen. We think we do; we think we have been cursed with a holy, bloated thing that twitches at the name we adore, but it is not a heart because though it will forfeit anything in the world-the mind, the body, the future, even the last lonely hour it has-it will not sacrifice itself.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “Have you met someone?” “Me? I think maybe I’ll go it on my own. Maybe I’m better that way. Maybe I was always better that way and it was just that when I was young, I was so scared, and now I’m not scared.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “As the Japanese will tell you, one can train a rose to grow through anything, to grow through a nautilus even, but it must be done with tenderness.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “Lovers don’t leave if there’s any hope at all.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “The beauty of his youth somehow taken from its winter storage and given back to him in middle age.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “We all recognize grief in moments that should be celebrations;.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “Grief will go – it always does – but not before it forces us to do these absurd things, and hurt ourselves, and bring on suffering, because grief, that parasite, above all else does not want to die, and only in these terrible moments it creates can it feel itself thrashing back to life.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “I absolutely look at people’s bookshelves. And I have some judgment. I mean, they’re openly showing you themselves.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “Every book it’s the hardest part-finding the way in, finding the voice to tell the story. H.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “Less is technically Christian. There is really no other word for someone who celebrates Christmas and Easter, even if only as craft projects.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “The brain is so wrong, all the time,” she says, turning to the dark landscape again. “Wrong about what time it is, and who people are, and where home is: wrong wrong wrong. The lying brain.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “Perhaps he was burning down a house in which he no longer wanted to live.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “Life, it’s so unlikely,” she said, then turned to me again. “It’s so much better than we think it is, isn’t it?”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “Almost sixty years ago, just after midnight, a few feet from the river where they danced, a wonder of modern engineering occurred: overnight, the Berlin Wall arose. It was the night of August 15, 1961. Berliners awoke on the sixteenth to this marvel, more of a fence at first, concrete posts driven into the streets and festooned with barbed wire. They knew trouble would come but expected it in degrees. Life so often arrives all of a sudden. And who knows which side you will find yourself on?”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “Yes, even old American writers are dancing like it is still the eighties in San Francisco, like the sexual revolution has been won, like the war is over and Berlin has been liberated, one’s own self has been liberated; and what the Bavarian in his arms is whispering is true, and everyone, everyone – even Arthur Less – is loved.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “The key to speaking a new language,” she told them, “is to be bold instead of perfect.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “You should kiss me like it’s goodbye.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “I understand that it wasn’t that you didnt want to be with me anymore, but you didn’t want to be yourself anymore, the one you were with me.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “They have come dressed as robots or space goddesses or aliens because a writer has changed their lives.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “Maybe you can go through your whole life and never meet them, and think love is all these other things, but if you do meet them, God help you! Because then: ka-blam! You’re screwed.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “Less, as with a repentant worshipper, begins again to love his subject, and at last, one morning, after an hour sitting with his chin in his hand, watching birds cross the gray haze of the horizon, our benevolent god grants his character the brief benediction of joy.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “And yet what she has said – the lying brain – this is familiar; this has happened to him. Not exactly like this, not utter terrifying madness, but he knows his brain has told him things he has traveled around the world to forget. That the mind cannot be trusted is a certainty.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “Around the world his pity flies, its wingspan as wide as an albatross’s.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “What made it happen? What made it not happen? Thinking of a cure, a week away from the city, a dinner party with other geniuses, a new rug, a new shirt, a new way to hold him in bed, and failing and failing and somehow, at random, succeeding. Was it worth it?”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “Like measles, love was the kind of thing you had to catch in youth, dispel, so that it would not leap upon you in old age and kill you.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “We waste so much time within ourselves.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “How do we forgive ourselves? Our parents watch us so carefully when we’re children, desperate not to miss a first scream, a first step, a first word, never taking their eyes off us. Yet we do not watch them. They near the end in solitude – even those who live beside us die in solitude – and rarely do we catch their own milestones: the last scream before the morphine settles in, last step before they cannot walk, last word before the throat seals.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “What does one ever ask an author except: “How?” And the answer, as Less well knows, is obvious: “Beats me!”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “Clark always says that you can be thin or you can be happy, and, Arthur, I have already tried thin.”
Andrew Sean Greer Quote: “Well” – Lewis announcing over coffee and honeyed flatbreads – “we are being given an opportunity for a different experience than the one we were expecting.”
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