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Top 20 Spalding Gray Quotes (2024 Update)

Spalding Gray Quote: “I refer to jet lag as ’jet-psychosis – there’s an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel.”

1. “I refer to jet lag as ’jet-psychosis – there’s an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel.”

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Spalding Gray Quote: “Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.”

2. “Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.”

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Spalding Gray Quote: “Real life has always let me down. That’s why I do the monologues. I have always said I would rather tell a life than live a life. But I have to live a life in order to tell one.”

3. “Real life has always let me down. That’s why I do the monologues. I have always said I would rather tell a life than live a life. But I have to live a life in order to tell one.”

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Spalding Gray Quote: “One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.”

4. “One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.”

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Spalding Gray Quote: “I knew I couldn’t live in America and I wasn’t ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America – New York City .”

5. “I knew I couldn’t live in America and I wasn’t ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America – New York City .”

— Spalding Gray

Spalding Gray Quote: “He won’t fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won’t fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.”

6. “He won’t fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won’t fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.”

— Spalding Gray

Spalding Gray Quote: “I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that’s where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.”

7. “I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that’s where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.”

— Spalding Gray

Spalding Gray Quote: “Psychoanalysis is the transformation of hysterical misery into common unhappiness.”

8. “Psychoanalysis is the transformation of hysterical misery into common unhappiness.”

— Spalding Gray

Spalding Gray Quote: “The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode.”

9. “The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode.”

— Spalding Gray

Spalding Gray Quote: “I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup.”

10. “I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup.”

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Spalding Gray Quote: “All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities.”

11. “All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities.”

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Spalding Gray Quote: “The only thing I don’t doubt is my doubt.”

12. “The only thing I don’t doubt is my doubt.”

— Spalding Gray

Spalding Gray Quote: “I consulted a therapist at Mass. General. After about 20 minutes, he stopped me and said, ‘You’re just a big existential garbage pail. Go home and relax.’”

13. “I consulted a therapist at Mass. General. After about 20 minutes, he stopped me and said, ‘You’re just a big existential garbage pail. Go home and relax.’”

— Spalding Gray

Spalding Gray Quote: “I say that I can’t make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I’m cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you’re always in control, you’re like God.”

14. “I say that I can’t make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I’m cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you’re always in control, you’re like God.”

— Spalding Gray

Spalding Gray Quote: “I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them.”

15. “I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them.”

— Spalding Gray

Spalding Gray Quote: “I’m kind of this control freak that likes to create his own hells before the real one can get to him.”

16. “I’m kind of this control freak that likes to create his own hells before the real one can get to him.”

— Spalding Gray

Spalding Gray Quote: “If I can make people laugh it’s like being a good lover.”

17. “If I can make people laugh it’s like being a good lover.”

— Spalding Gray

Spalding Gray Quote: “To be famous is to be stuck in an inflexible place. But at least it is to be stuck with money.”

18. “To be famous is to be stuck in an inflexible place. But at least it is to be stuck with money.”

— Spalding Gray

Spalding Gray Quote: “I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.”

19. “I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.”

— Spalding Gray

Spalding Gray Quote: “How therapeutic it is to surround yourself with people stranger than yourself.”

20. “How therapeutic it is to surround yourself with people stranger than yourself.”

— Spalding Gray

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