Alexander Theroux Quotes

• Septiembre: era la más bella de las palabras, siempre le había parecido, evocadora de flores anaranjadas, golondrinas y arrepentimiento.

  Alexander Theroux

  Beautiful, Regret, Flower

  Alexander Theroux (1981). “Darconville's cat”, Doubleday Books

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• Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.

  Alexander Theroux

  Book, Use, Dictionary

  Alexander Theroux (1981). “Darconville's cat”, Doubleday Books

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• El adulterio es el vicio del equívoco.
  No es el matrimonio, sino una burla de él, una fusión que mezcla amor y espanto como pajas. No hay comprensión de la satisfacción en el adulterio.... Os pertenecéis el uno al otro en lo que juntos habéis hecho de una tercera identidad que casi inmediatamente anula la vuestra. Hay una ley en el arte que lo demuestra. Dos colores sólo son complementarios cuando forman el más desolado de todos los colores: el gris neutro.

  Alexander Theroux

  Art, Color, Law

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• The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality.

  Alexander Theroux

  Reality, Men, Have Faith

  Alexander Theroux (1981). “Darconville's cat”, Doubleday Books

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• There is a terrible blindness in the love that wants only to accommodate. It's not only to do with omissions and half-truths. It implants a lack of being in the speaker and robs the self of an identity without which it is impossible for one to grow close to another.

  Alexander Theroux

  Omission, Self, Identity

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• Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.

  Alexander Theroux

  Lonely, Loneliness, Privacy

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• If on a friend’s bookshelf You cannot find Joyce or Sterne Cervantes, Rabelais, or Burton, You are in danger, face the fact, So kick him first or punch him hard And from him hide behind a curtain.

  Alexander Theroux

  Faces, Firsts, Facts

  Alexander Theroux (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.527, Fantagraphics Books

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• Odio la injusticia, desprecio la inequidad, condeno la hipocresía, aborrezco la falta de razón.

  Alexander Theroux

  Hate, Hypocrisy, Injustice

  Fuente: www.raintaxi.com

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• No hay soledad como la de un matrimonio fracasado.

  Alexander Theroux

  Marriage, Loneliness, Being Lonely

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• We all end up living secret lives. We create what we are willing to admire and admiring what we shouldn't confess to the secret ofour own sin, our own insufficiency, our own sadness. We all end up taking our secrets into the world and handing them over to strangers, only to realize it's often too late to claim them back. The very nature of time passing is sad beyond words. Memories mean they're gone.

  Alexander Theroux

  Time, Memories, Sadness

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• Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc.

  Alexander Theroux

  Book, Editors, Agents

  Fuente: www.raintaxi.com

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• Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs?

  Alexander Theroux

  Fire, Hands, Burning

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• Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

  Alexander Theroux

  Essence, Hypocrisy, Problem

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• Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion, hung washing, the caliber of a bullet, teething beads.

  Alexander Theroux

  Self, Views, Style

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• Brent Berlin and Paul Kay in Basic Color Terms demonstrate exhaustively and empirically, the very simple thesis that anywhere in the world, as a language develops and acquires names for color, the colors always enter in the same order. The most primitive are black and white. Then red. Then either green or yellow.

  Alexander Theroux

  Black And White, Simple, Order

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• Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences between people, not from overwhelming inequalities... it was envy that forced them to emulate each other, not esteem.

  Alexander Theroux

  Artist, Circles, Differences

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• One's style holds one, thankfully, at bay from the enemies of it but not from the stupid crucifixions by those who must willfully misunderstand it.

  Alexander Theroux

  Stupid, Style, Enemy

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• Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.

  Alexander Theroux

  Yellow, Vagueness

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• The ears, which master the face of a dunce, are that part of the head which most publishes stupidity.

  Alexander Theroux

  Stupidity, Faces, Ears

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• The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to demand is either whim, the needy plebiscite of instantly famished drunks, or pregnancy.

  Alexander Theroux

  Pregnancy, Holiday, Chinese

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• The particular source of frustration of women observing their own self-study and measuring their worth as women by the distance they kept from men necessitated that a distance be kept, and so what vindicated them also poured fuel on the furnace of their rage. One delight presumed another dissatisfaction, but their hatefulness confessed to their own lack of power to please. They hated men because they needed husbands, and they loathed the men they chased away for going.

  Alexander Theroux

  Husband, Distance, Men

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• Reviewing books is all about coziness. It is all of it a kind of caucus race. Women review women, Jewish writers review and praise Jewish writers, blacks review blacks, etc.

  Alexander Theroux

  Book, Race, Etc

  Fuente: www.raintaxi.com

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• It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.

  Alexander Theroux

  Names, Pet, Would Be

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• Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

  Alexander Theroux

  Needs, Faculty, Shows

  Alexander Theroux (1981). “Darconville's cat”, Doubleday Books

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• I thought... their elegance... lies not so much in their clothes as in their bodies, and their bodies have received it, and continue to unceasingly receive it, from their souls, which are just like yours, lovely Simonetta.

  Alexander Theroux

  Lying, Clothes, Soul

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