David Leavitt Quotes

• When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.

  David Leavitt

  Silence, Trying, Ends

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• Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.

  David Leavitt

  Smell, Childhood, Brownies

  David Leavitt (2013). “The Stories of David Leavitt”, p.4, A&C Black

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• You are not supposed to get it. It's a paradox. All of mathematics is built on paradoxes. That's the biggest paradox of all-all this orderliness, and at the heart, impossibility. Contradiction. Heaven built on the foundations of hell.

  David Leavitt

  Heart, Science, Heaven

  David Leavitt (2009). “The Indian Clerk”, p.225, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I think it's very funny that someone would exaggerate to make himself look worse.

  David Leavitt

  Thinking, Looks, Exaggeration

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• It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

  David Leavitt

  Writing, Fiction, Common

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• Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.

  David Leavitt

  Writing, Return, Bitter

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• Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They are the long haul. They are marriage. Stories, on the other hand, you can lose yourself in for a few weeks and then wrap up, or grow tired of and abandon and (maybe) return to later. They can cuddle you sweetly, or make you get on your knees and beg.

  David Leavitt

  Passion, Writing, Tired

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• In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.

  David Leavitt

  Memories, Thinking, Degrees

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• We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have left is retrospection and anticipation, retrospection and anticipation. In which case what's left to recall but past anticipation? What's left to anticipate but future retrospection?

  David Leavitt

  Past, Hands, Worry

  David Leavitt (2013). “The Two Hotel Francforts”, p.85, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close to you, what you are told, what you have read, all mixed together into this kind of soup which, like any good soup, at the end you cannot really distinguish the ingredients.

  David Leavitt

  People, Together, Ingredients

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• I could hear the knock and whistle of the water pipes, the purr of the calico cat. And at that moment a happiness filled me that was pure and perfect and yet it was bled with despair - as if I had been handed a cup of ambrosial nectar to drink from and knew that once I finished drinking, the cup would be withdrawn forever, and nothing to come would ever taste as good.

  David Leavitt

  Drinking, Cat, Perfect

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• También se puede pensar en la combinatoria como una máquina", dice el comandante. Aunque es otro tipo de máquina. ¿Has oído hablar de la máquina analítica de Babbage? Nunca la construyó. ... Yo tengo mi propia máquina analítica, aquí mismo". Se da golpecitos en el cráneo.

  David Leavitt

  Science, Thinking, Skulls

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