Julien Gracq quotes

“Floating high on the waters of catastrophe”
-- Julien Gracq

Source : Julien Gracq (2017). “Balcony in the Forest”, p.99, New York Review of Books

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“And what can still delight an inert stone except to become, once more, the bed of a raging torrent?”
-- Julien Gracq

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“On its own, having escaped my grasp, the spool I had loosed was unwinding.”
-- Julien Gracq

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“Blood had long since ceased to beat from one end to the other, but one could sense, from passages marked with fresher traces of wheels and hooves, that once the meaning and even the very idea of a long journey was lost, sleep had not descended over it in one fell swoop: it had continued to steal a march here and there, in a discontinuous way, and over short distances, like a laborer who feels his cart jolt on a section of Roman road that crosses his field.”
-- Julien Gracq

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“A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.”
-- Julien Gracq

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“The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'”

Source : A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial

“Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.”

“It would be easier for the Devil to go to church and cross himself with holy water than for these people to comprehend the ideas which are accepted facts to us today.”

“The floating world is the realm of the graphic designer”

Source : Aaron Betsky, Erik Adigard (2000). “Architecture must burn”, Gingko Pr Inc

“We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.”

“I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old chicks.”

“I feel like I am floating in plasma I need a teacher or a lover I need someone to risk being involved with me. I am so vain and I am so masochistic. How can they coexist?”

“They [Democrats] are the troubadours and the crooners of catastrophe.”

“So many catastrophes in love are only accidents of egotism.”