William Goyen quotes

“For me, environment is all. Place is absolutely essential.”
-- William Goyen

Source : "Goyen: Autobiographical Essays, Notebooks, Evocations, Interviews".

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“There’s nothing better than an elegant cry of despair.”
-- William Goyen

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“It’s amazing how quickly something gets written. Now, when it comes, it can be on a bus, or in a store. I’ve stopped in Macy’s and written on a dry-goods counter and then suddenly had a whole piece of writing for myself that was accomplished, where earlier in my life I felt I had to spend a week in a house somewhere in the country in order to get that. Conditions change.”
-- William Goyen

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“Maybe solitude is best had in the midst of multitudes.”
-- William Goyen

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“There’s nothing better than an elegant cry of despair.”
-- William Goyen

Source : William Goyen, Reginald Gibbons (2007). “Goyen: Autobiographical Essays, Notebooks, Evocations, Interviews”, p.85, University of Texas Press

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“It’s amazing how quickly something gets written. Now, when it comes, it can be on a bus, or in a store. I’ve stopped in Macy’s and written on a dry-goods counter and then suddenly had a whole piece of writing for myself that was accomplished, where earlier in my life I felt I had to spend a week in a house somewhere in the country in order to get that. Conditions change.”
-- William Goyen

Source : William Goyen, Reginald Gibbons (2007). “Goyen: Autobiographical Essays, Notebooks, Evocations, Interviews”, p.76, University of Texas Press

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“Not just a timely movie, a great one...Timbuktu feels at once timely and permanent, immediate and essential.”

“The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.”

“In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her of her hope of being able still to confront us, on the continent itself, with an adversary of a stature equal to our own.”

“Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.”

“We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.”

“Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.”

“It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.”

“Trees are your best antiques”

“I still think that being thrown in a very competitive environment where you really have to see what you are made of - certainly when you come out of nowhere - was good for me.”

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“Eating is an environmental act.”