Geoffrey Faber quotes

Geoffrey Faber quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The publisher is a middleman, he calls the tune to which the whole rest of the trade dances; and he does so because he pays the piper.”
-- Geoffrey Faber

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“We're used to the characteristics of social media - participation, connection, instant gratification - and when school doesn't offer the same, it's easy to tune out.”
“I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.”
“Dance music-as I keep saying, you can dance to a windshield wiper... a windshield wiper that's fairly steady gives you a beat and all you need is an out-of-tune playing 'Melancholy Baby' and you've got dance music.”
“I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.”
“If after accepting the spiritual master and being initiated one does not follow the rules and regulations of devotional service, then he is again fallen.”
“Let's stop somebody from doing something! Everybody does too much.”
“Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.”

Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Jun 30, 2010
“Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.”
“I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does it mean to know another person? To love someone? Of course, those questions are sort of in the background as I'm playing with language in the foreground, but those are the informing questions.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
“Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work”

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