Donald Antrim Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“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.”
-- Donald Antrim

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“There is nothing more seductive — and dangerous — than being listened to.”
-- Donald Antrim

Source : 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 Antrim

Source : 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 Antrim

Source : 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 Antrim

Source : 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 Antrim

Source : 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.”
-- Donald Antrim

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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 Antrim

Source : 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.”

“Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.”

Source : "A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait". Book by Jervis Anderson, epigraph, p. VII, 1972.

“Sometimes she wished for someone she could tell about her problems, just to be able to say, ‘I’m in love with a man and I can’t have him.’ But that would only lead to questions she couldn’t answer, so she kept the secret and the pain inside, hoping someday she would no longer feel as if half of her were missing.”

Source : Abigail Reynolds (2010). “Man Who Loved Pride and Prejudice: A modern love story with a Jane Austen twist”, p.252, Sourcebooks, Inc.

“I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.”

“Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.”

“Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.”

Source : Aidan Chambers (2012). “Dying to Know You”, p.189, Abrams

“Without coffee something’s missing”

“Regardless, we are a two career household, and it's Dario's season, and I'm really excited about going racing.”

“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.

“I thought: This is not racing, it's a suicide mission.”