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Top 10 Marcel Theroux Quotes (2025 Update)

Marcel Theroux Quote: “Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life.”

1. “Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life.”

— Marcel Theroux

Marcel Theroux Quote: “I had always believed that right was like north to my father: a thing as real as sunlight, a place on the map, the arrow on a compass. It was the unalterable facts of duty, love, and conscience. But our world had gone so far north that the compass could make no sense of it, could only spin hopelessly in it binnacle. North had melted right off the map.”

2. “I had always believed that right was like north to my father: a thing as real as sunlight, a place on the map, the arrow on a compass. It was the unalterable facts of duty, love, and conscience. But our world had gone so far north that the compass could make no sense of it, could only spin hopelessly in it binnacle. North had melted right off the map.”

— Marcel Theroux

Marcel Theroux Quote: “The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without a consciousness to tickle them into life, those books were dead.”

3. “The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without a consciousness to tickle them into life, those books were dead.”

— Marcel Theroux

Marcel Theroux Quote: “I have woken up to find that I am made of words.”

4. “I have woken up to find that I am made of words.”

— Marcel Theroux

Marcel Theroux Quote: “Was there a straight line on earth before we drew one?”

5. “Was there a straight line on earth before we drew one?”

— Marcel Theroux

Marcel Theroux Quote: “I had always believed that right was like north to my father: a thing as real as sunlight, a place on the map, the arrow on a compass.”

6. “I had always believed that right was like north to my father: a thing as real as sunlight, a place on the map, the arrow on a compass.”

— Marcel Theroux

Marcel Theroux Quote: “What I found in a city – when I finally saw a real one – was disquieting. Nothing matched. It was a weird assemblage of things, but there was beauty in the oddness of it, and the thought that it was all man’s doing. But.”

7. “What I found in a city – when I finally saw a real one – was disquieting. Nothing matched. It was a weird assemblage of things, but there was beauty in the oddness of it, and the thought that it was all man’s doing. But.”

— Marcel Theroux

Marcel Theroux Quote: “It’s a kind of heresy to say so, but I think our race has made forms more beautiful than what was here before us. Sometimes god’s handiwork is crude. There is no more ugly thing than a lobster. There’s not much pretty about a caribou. It has an ungainly walk and its touchhole voids droppings when it strains in harness. Was there a straight line on earth before we drew one?”

8. “It’s a kind of heresy to say so, but I think our race has made forms more beautiful than what was here before us. Sometimes god’s handiwork is crude. There is no more ugly thing than a lobster. There’s not much pretty about a caribou. It has an ungainly walk and its touchhole voids droppings when it strains in harness. Was there a straight line on earth before we drew one?”

— Marcel Theroux

Marcel Theroux Quote: “What arrogance made us think we were far enough to be safe?”

9. “What arrogance made us think we were far enough to be safe?”

— Marcel Theroux

Marcel Theroux Quote: “I loved my father, but I was not like him. I never needed to believe the best of people. I took them as they were: two-faced, desperate, kind – perhaps all at once. But to Pa, they were all children of god, poor troubled sheep, who only needed love and an even break. He needed the world to back up what his religion told him about people. And when it came down to a choice between reason and faith, he let go of reason.”

10. “I loved my father, but I was not like him. I never needed to believe the best of people. I took them as they were: two-faced, desperate, kind – perhaps all at once. But to Pa, they were all children of god, poor troubled sheep, who only needed love and an even break. He needed the world to back up what his religion told him about people. And when it came down to a choice between reason and faith, he let go of reason.”

— Marcel Theroux

Marcel Theroux Quote: “Of course, there are things that are indifferent to human opinion – gravity, the moondriven motion of the tides, the boiling point of water. But the finer details of reality – the state of a marriage, artistic merit, a person’s true nature – have something delicate and consensual about them.”

11. “Of course, there are things that are indifferent to human opinion – gravity, the moondriven motion of the tides, the boiling point of water. But the finer details of reality – the state of a marriage, artistic merit, a person’s true nature – have something delicate and consensual about them.”

— Marcel Theroux

Marcel Theroux Quote: “Because before you acquired language, you didn’t exist.”

12. “Because before you acquired language, you didn’t exist.”

— Marcel Theroux

Marcel Theroux Quote: “I had the feeling of something inside me that flipped like a fish in a net. It was hope. As much as I bad-mouth people in general and think the worst of them, I’m secretly waiting for them to surprise me. Try as I might, I haven’t been able to give up on them wholly. Even though they are nine and nine-tenths dirt, now and again they are capable of something angelic. I can’t say that it restores my faith, because I really had none in the first place, but when it happens it does confuse you.”

13. “I had the feeling of something inside me that flipped like a fish in a net. It was hope. As much as I bad-mouth people in general and think the worst of them, I’m secretly waiting for them to surprise me. Try as I might, I haven’t been able to give up on them wholly. Even though they are nine and nine-tenths dirt, now and again they are capable of something angelic. I can’t say that it restores my faith, because I really had none in the first place, but when it happens it does confuse you.”

— Marcel Theroux

Marcel Theroux Quote: “There is something talismanic about familiar words.”

14. “There is something talismanic about familiar words.”

— Marcel Theroux

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