Top 11 Jean-Christophe Valtat Quotes
#1. I have heard about your gifts myself, Miss Roth,' read the subtitle under Brentford's awkward mumble.
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#2. Vassily cleared his throat, probably impatient with Gabriel's bookshelf manners. 'You'll have to excuse me,' Gabriel said, putting back the booklet, 'I have a severe addiction to ink.'
'Don't we all?' Vassily nodded. 'Thank God we have other addictions to assuage it a little.
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#3. He considered each and every second as if he'd never encountered one before, as if the time it kept was a permanent surprise.
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#4. This isn't the time for bravado, Mr. Orsini,' he said.
Brentford couldn't help himself. 'No, it isn't,' he said. 'Perhaps you could come back later?
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#5. When in doubt, do what they do in books, was one of Gabriel's secret mottos and - that rarest of things - a principle that he actually lived by.
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#6. In English sometimes they call a mentally disabled person a retard, and there is a kind of accidental poetry in naming a human being with this quality of latency or absence, like a clock left behind in an empty room, a page someone forgot to rip out of a calendar, the walking embodiment of jet lag.
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#7. The news took a moment to sink in, probably because there was no bottom for it to alight upon.
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#8. Brentford gave the polite smile of a man who talks daily with a living mechanical head about a city in the Arctic Circle governed by hermaphrodite Siamese twins born from a dead woman, and refrained from further comments about the probable and improbable.
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#9. Even if the previous millisecond is closer to us than the birth of the universe, it is equally out of reach.
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#10. Paris was no more Babylon than it was New Jerusalem. All cities worthy of that name were both: they were one because they were the other ...
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#11. Could it be, God forbid, that nationality is only a superficial, insignificant layer of the onion that is your being? What would you think of the man who would say of himself 'I am an overcoat' just because he happened to be wearing one?
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