Donald Antrim Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It obliterates whatever isn't racing. Life is the metaphor for the race.”
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“There is nothing more seductive — and dangerous — than being listened to.”
-- Donald AntrimSource : Donald Antrim (2011). “The Verificationist: A Novel”, p.49, Macmillan
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“The simple question 'What color do you want to paint that upstairs room?' might, if we follow things to their logical conclusions, be stated: 'How do I live, knowing that I will one day die and leave you?”
-- Donald AntrimSource : Donald Antrim (2011). “The Verificationist: A Novel”, p.11, Macmillan
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“We eat pancakes to escape loneliness, yet within moments we want nothing more than our freedom from ever having so much as thought about pancakes. Nothing can prevent us, after eating pancakes, from feeling the most awful regret. After eating pancakes, our great mission in life becomes the repudiation of the pancakes and everything served along with them, the bacon and the syrup and the sausage and coffee and jellies and jams. But these things are beneath mention, compared with the pancakes themselves. It is the pancake--Pancakes! Pancakes!--that we never learn to respect.”
-- Donald AntrimSource : Donald Antrim (2011). “The Verificationist: A Novel”, p.66, Macmillan
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“Have you ever noticed?--people, no matter how beautiful or desirable, invariably will, if observed closely while going about their daily business of keeping alive, begin to seem like monsters.”
-- Donald AntrimSource : Donald Antrim (2011). “The Verificationist: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan
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“Choice, with its inevitable invitations to loss, is always such a trial.”
-- Donald AntrimSource : Donald Antrim (2011). “The Verificationist: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan
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“There is such a thing as the courage in remaining baffled.”
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“It is true that there is nothing like a blaze in the hearth to soothe the nerves and restore order to a house.”
-- Donald AntrimSource : Rosalind Goforth (2016). “How I Know God Answers Prayer”, p.6, Sheba Blake Publishing
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“On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.”
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Source : "A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait". Book by Jervis Anderson, epigraph, p. VII, 1972.
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Source : Abigail Reynolds (2010). “Man Who Loved Pride and Prejudice: A modern love story with a Jane Austen twist”, p.252, Sourcebooks, Inc.
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“Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.”
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Source : Aidan Chambers (2012). “Dying to Know You”, p.189, Abrams
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“If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver.”
Source : Interview at the 1990 Australian Grand Prix, November 1990.
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