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Top 20 Jerry Pinto Quotes (2024 Update)

Jerry Pinto Quote: “Because the sky is so high and the crow shat in your left eye. I could tell you a lie but I don’t see why. The world is a game and the game is a tie. The tie is around your neck and they’ll string you high.”

1. “Because the sky is so high and the crow shat in your left eye. I could tell you a lie but I don’t see why. The world is a game and the game is a tie. The tie is around your neck and they’ll string you high.”

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Jerry Pinto Quote: “A well-told lie can heal. Otherwise, what’s fiction?”

2. “A well-told lie can heal. Otherwise, what’s fiction?”

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Jerry Pinto Quote: “I went to bookshops to smell that lovely aroma of a new book. I would pick up a copy and run the pages across the ball of my thumb and let the fresh-baked smell flow up my nose. Then I would lick my thumb. It didn’t taste of anything, but it was like finding a chocolate wrapper inside a book and remembering the taste of the chocolate.”

3. “I went to bookshops to smell that lovely aroma of a new book. I would pick up a copy and run the pages across the ball of my thumb and let the fresh-baked smell flow up my nose. Then I would lick my thumb. It didn’t taste of anything, but it was like finding a chocolate wrapper inside a book and remembering the taste of the chocolate.”

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Jerry Pinto Quote: “You can cry in public as long as you don not sob. Tears are transparent. If you’re walking fast, if the sun’s too strong, no one notices. Sobs intrude. They push their way into people’s consciousness. They feel duty-bound to ask what has happened.”

4. “You can cry in public as long as you don not sob. Tears are transparent. If you’re walking fast, if the sun’s too strong, no one notices. Sobs intrude. They push their way into people’s consciousness. They feel duty-bound to ask what has happened.”

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Jerry Pinto Quote: “One thing,’ he said. ‘If you want to get people to talk to you, you should never interrupt.’ ‘Never? Even if I think something is wrong or missing?’ ‘Especially if you think something is wrong or missing.’ ‘Why?’ ‘Stops them. Gives them time to think. Interrupts the flow. If you want to get more, you shut up and wait.’ And.”

5. “One thing,’ he said. ‘If you want to get people to talk to you, you should never interrupt.’ ‘Never? Even if I think something is wrong or missing?’ ‘Especially if you think something is wrong or missing.’ ‘Why?’ ‘Stops them. Gives them time to think. Interrupts the flow. If you want to get more, you shut up and wait.’ And.”

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Jerry Pinto Quote: “Dear Imelda, In accordance with your wishes, I did not imagine you smiling. I did not smile myself. But I am willing to take my chances. Your body is yours to give or not. Should you decide not, I will respect that, although I must warn you that I will work hard to reverse your decision. Let me say, though, that I find all the signs most encouraging. Shall we go forward then? Love, Augustine.”

6. “Dear Imelda, In accordance with your wishes, I did not imagine you smiling. I did not smile myself. But I am willing to take my chances. Your body is yours to give or not. Should you decide not, I will respect that, although I must warn you that I will work hard to reverse your decision. Let me say, though, that I find all the signs most encouraging. Shall we go forward then? Love, Augustine.”

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Jerry Pinto Quote: “Sometimes I would see myself as a book with bad binding. You know, like one more reader, one more face-down on the bed and I was going to spill everything, lose control.”

7. “Sometimes I would see myself as a book with bad binding. You know, like one more reader, one more face-down on the bed and I was going to spill everything, lose control.”

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Jerry Pinto Quote: “It’s like being in a dream where you can do something and every time you try to get it right, you find that the action has shifted to another place and you have to start again.”

8. “It’s like being in a dream where you can do something and every time you try to get it right, you find that the action has shifted to another place and you have to start again.”

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Jerry Pinto Quote: “Home was where others had to gather grace. Home was what I wanted to flee.”

9. “Home was where others had to gather grace. Home was what I wanted to flee.”

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Jerry Pinto Quote: “I am no I. I am now part of a we.”

10. “I am no I. I am now part of a we.”

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Jerry Pinto Quote: “But we knew that something was wrong. We smelt it in the aura she exuded. We felt it in the way her eyes met ours. There was nothing in her eyes, none of the collusive appeal to family that she normally made. Something in her brain told us we were friends so she treated us like friends, but there was nothing behind it. And then we discovered that love was about memory and something had disrupted her store of our collective memories.”

11. “But we knew that something was wrong. We smelt it in the aura she exuded. We felt it in the way her eyes met ours. There was nothing in her eyes, none of the collusive appeal to family that she normally made. Something in her brain told us we were friends so she treated us like friends, but there was nothing behind it. And then we discovered that love was about memory and something had disrupted her store of our collective memories.”

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Jerry Pinto Quote: “I wanted to understand her predicament because I was her son and I loved her with a helpless corroded love.”

12. “I wanted to understand her predicament because I was her son and I loved her with a helpless corroded love.”

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Jerry Pinto Quote: “But it seemed as if all psychiatric medicine was aimed only at the symptoms. Mute the paranoia. Calm the rage. Raise the endorphins. Underneath, the mysteries continued, unchanged. Underneath, somewhere in the chemistry of her brain, there was something that could not be reached.”

13. “But it seemed as if all psychiatric medicine was aimed only at the symptoms. Mute the paranoia. Calm the rage. Raise the endorphins. Underneath, the mysteries continued, unchanged. Underneath, somewhere in the chemistry of her brain, there was something that could not be reached.”

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Jerry Pinto Quote: “Each time she had tried to kill herself she had opened her body and let her blood flow out. Was that the drain, then, I wondered, was that how it worked?”

14. “Each time she had tried to kill herself she had opened her body and let her blood flow out. Was that the drain, then, I wondered, was that how it worked?”

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Jerry Pinto Quote: “If anyone ever does you a favour, you cannot forget it. You must always credit them, especially in public, especially to those they love and those who love them. You must pay your debts, even those that you can never fully repay. Anything less makes you less.’ But.”

15. “If anyone ever does you a favour, you cannot forget it. You must always credit them, especially in public, especially to those they love and those who love them. You must pay your debts, even those that you can never fully repay. Anything less makes you less.’ But.”

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Jerry Pinto Quote: “Gertrude was a veteran of the love wars.”

16. “Gertrude was a veteran of the love wars.”

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Jerry Pinto Quote: “Love is never enough. Madness is enough. It is complete, sufficient unto itself.”

17. “Love is never enough. Madness is enough. It is complete, sufficient unto itself.”

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Jerry Pinto Quote: “And then we discovered that love was about memory and something had disrupted her store of our collective memories.”

18. “And then we discovered that love was about memory and something had disrupted her store of our collective memories.”

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Jerry Pinto Quote: “The city continued on its way. Boys tried to sell me drumsticks, girls played hopscotch, the Bihari badly worker carried his gathri of ironed clothes to the homes from which they had come, and the buses honked at suicidal cyclists. At one level this was vaguely confusing. Surely, something should acknowledge how much things had changed? At another level, it was oddly comforting.”

19. “The city continued on its way. Boys tried to sell me drumsticks, girls played hopscotch, the Bihari badly worker carried his gathri of ironed clothes to the homes from which they had come, and the buses honked at suicidal cyclists. At one level this was vaguely confusing. Surely, something should acknowledge how much things had changed? At another level, it was oddly comforting.”

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Jerry Pinto Quote: “It was only later that I came to understand why she never used her condition as a refuge: it would have violated her sense of fair play.”

20. “It was only later that I came to understand why she never used her condition as a refuge: it would have violated her sense of fair play.”

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Jerry Pinto Quote: “She wrote when she was with us. She wrote when no one was around. She wrote postcards. She wrote letters in books. She wrote in other people’s diaries, in telephone diaries, on menus of takeaway places.”

21. “She wrote when she was with us. She wrote when no one was around. She wrote postcards. She wrote letters in books. She wrote in other people’s diaries, in telephone diaries, on menus of takeaway places.”

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