Lars Iyer Quotes

#1. It is possible to bathe in nonsense ... to be refreshed by it.

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#2. I romanticised Mancunian despair, W says. I didn't realise that Mancunian despair is only the desire to leave Manchester

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#3. We have to remember not to tell them, each of them, that they are our new leader. It would only frighten them off, W. says. No one should ever know he or she is our leader, we agree. Only we should know. And we should follow them in secret.

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#4. Expectation is the greatest impediment to living, running ahead to tomorrow, it loses today.

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#5. If a book doesn't make you want to throw it aside and think your own thoughts, what use is it?

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#6. You have to be gentle with the young, W. says. They're a gentle generation, like fauns, he says, and require a special tenderness. Their lives are going to be bad--very bad--and, at the very least, we should be tender with them, and not remind them of what is to come.

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#7. As we look out to sea, a great shadow seems to move under the water. He can see it, says W. - 'Look: the kraken of your idiocy'. Yes, there it is, moving darkly beneath the water.

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