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Top 10 Norman Lock Quotes (2025 Update)

Norman Lock Quote: “I would prefer to believe that things possess the power of recall, of recollection. That things are memoirs of the existences that once were theirs, if only we knew how to read them.”

1. “I would prefer to believe that things possess the power of recall, of recollection. That things are memoirs of the existences that once were theirs, if only we knew how to read them.”

— Norman Lock

Norman Lock Quote: “We may not realize it, but every point during the passage of our lives is a point of no return – except for what memory permits.”

2. “We may not realize it, but every point during the passage of our lives is a point of no return – except for what memory permits.”

— Norman Lock

Norman Lock Quote: “Hatred is unattractive, but it’s also irresistible. If men were honest with themselves, they’d admit it’s a stronger passion than lust.”

3. “Hatred is unattractive, but it’s also irresistible. If men were honest with themselves, they’d admit it’s a stronger passion than lust.”

— Norman Lock

Norman Lock Quote: “The negatives he did manage were made in the hour or two when the sun seemed to rally with a yellowy light reminiscent of an egg yolk; usually, it looked pale as a pearl on the steely blue or leaden sky above the snow-scrubbed lake. That’s a purple passage fit for a novel but hardly descriptive of the actuality of that winter, which was almost past enduring.”

4. “The negatives he did manage were made in the hour or two when the sun seemed to rally with a yellowy light reminiscent of an egg yolk; usually, it looked pale as a pearl on the steely blue or leaden sky above the snow-scrubbed lake. That’s a purple passage fit for a novel but hardly descriptive of the actuality of that winter, which was almost past enduring.”

— Norman Lock

Norman Lock Quote: “I insist on caprice as a necessary countermeasure to slavery. Otherwise, my own dictatorial mind must take – unknown to me – its instructions from a mastermind.”

5. “I insist on caprice as a necessary countermeasure to slavery. Otherwise, my own dictatorial mind must take – unknown to me – its instructions from a mastermind.”

— Norman Lock

Norman Lock Quote: “To ennoble is to diminish by robbing people of their complexity, their completeness, of their humanity, which is always clouded by what gets stirred up at the bottom.”

6. “To ennoble is to diminish by robbing people of their complexity, their completeness, of their humanity, which is always clouded by what gets stirred up at the bottom.”

— Norman Lock

Norman Lock Quote: “I hammered on the Poes’ front door like Alaric on the gates of Rome. Poe said that a gaudy figure of speech was a silk cravat around a dirty neck. He didn’t say whether the truth lay in the plain thing or in its fancy.”

7. “I hammered on the Poes’ front door like Alaric on the gates of Rome. Poe said that a gaudy figure of speech was a silk cravat around a dirty neck. He didn’t say whether the truth lay in the plain thing or in its fancy.”

— Norman Lock

Norman Lock Quote: “The raft was seized, with a noise like needles knitting, and we were hemmed in for winter – river and the old channel’s oxbow lake having frozen solid. By now, we guessed we were not two ordinary river travelers... it must have been the river that was extraordinary: a marvel that protected us by the same mysterious action that had given a common horse wings and changed a woman into a laurel tree.”

8. “The raft was seized, with a noise like needles knitting, and we were hemmed in for winter – river and the old channel’s oxbow lake having frozen solid. By now, we guessed we were not two ordinary river travelers... it must have been the river that was extraordinary: a marvel that protected us by the same mysterious action that had given a common horse wings and changed a woman into a laurel tree.”

— Norman Lock

Norman Lock Quote: “A sour view of things, I grant you; but one borne out by the history of our age and of the age to come, when Trinity – not the Christians’ but Oppenheimer’s – will turn Alamogordo sand to glass. In the future, dead cities will molder behind rusting thorns no prince can ever penetrate; dirty bombs will engender tribes of lepers – not by germs, but by deadly atoms; and radioactive isotopes will be left to cool for an age or more, sealed in burial chambers with a pharaoh’s curse.”

9. “A sour view of things, I grant you; but one borne out by the history of our age and of the age to come, when Trinity – not the Christians’ but Oppenheimer’s – will turn Alamogordo sand to glass. In the future, dead cities will molder behind rusting thorns no prince can ever penetrate; dirty bombs will engender tribes of lepers – not by germs, but by deadly atoms; and radioactive isotopes will be left to cool for an age or more, sealed in burial chambers with a pharaoh’s curse.”

— Norman Lock

Norman Lock Quote: “I had sucked on the tit of disillusionment and teethed on the bitter root of cynicism. I was on the way to the misanthropy that would sour me.”

10. “I had sucked on the tit of disillusionment and teethed on the bitter root of cynicism. I was on the way to the misanthropy that would sour me.”

— Norman Lock

Norman Lock Quote: “Anna and I did not make love. I don’t remember why. Maybe we didn’t need to. She might have been afraid, although I doubt she was afraid of much. She’d been a midwife before she opened a studio; she’d held life in her hands, like a wire from a galvanic cell. Maybe death was too strong in me for an act so inspirited with life. Although I sometimes think that death is what gives lovemaking its desperate and terrible joy.”

11. “Anna and I did not make love. I don’t remember why. Maybe we didn’t need to. She might have been afraid, although I doubt she was afraid of much. She’d been a midwife before she opened a studio; she’d held life in her hands, like a wire from a galvanic cell. Maybe death was too strong in me for an act so inspirited with life. Although I sometimes think that death is what gives lovemaking its desperate and terrible joy.”

— Norman Lock

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