Gerald Murnane Quotes

#1. The Australian Gerald Murnane, a genius on the level of Beckett, is known in Australia and Sweden but almost nowhere else. And I loved Reality Hunger, David Shields' recent novel take on the art of the novel.

Teju Cole

#2. President Bush fell off his mountain bike down on his ranch in Texas. A couple weeks ago, John Kerry fell off his bicycle. See, doesn't this make you miss President Clinton? That guy, he could ride anything without falling off.

Jay Leno

#3. One reason why so little is known about the German resistance is because it was never a united movement in the way that it was in France or Poland. It was simply too dangerous.

Kate Forsyth

#4. Now, what is the comparative loudness of a man's flicking the corners of a few banknotes in the middle of his room with the same man's pissing furiously from a bursting bladder into a stainless-steel sink in the corner of his room nearest to a pair of huddled, listening females?

Gerald Murnane

#5. Lies don't fix things. They don't even make things easier, at least not in the long run. Best to tell the truth then clean up an honest mess P.C. Cast ( Grandma Redbird) ... So wish People would understand this !!

P.C. Cast

#6. You're sadly fucked up. And really homo, too."
Jared scowled. "Bisexual, fuck you very much, and unless I yank your dong it's none of your business anyway.

Theda Black

#7. The details of what we call our lives go sometimes to form patterns of meaning not unlike those to be found in our preferred sort of fiction.

Gerald Murnane

#8. With some of the bad things that come with love, there's also a lot of good. For example that connection ... which I struggle to have with most people.

Lana Del Rey

#9. Being fed, and having a soft bed, and other people being in charge, seemed the most wonderful prospect in the world at that moment.

J.K. Rowling

#10. Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways

Franz Boas

#11. The Bible will guide you. It will be a light unto your path.

Michael J. Marx

#12. The only problem with the way they do my character is that they have her get redeemed too early.

Hunter Tylo

#13. I read once that certain musical compositions (by Bach? by Beethoven? I forget) sounded like the efforts of the human soul to explain itself to God. If ever I find my perfect combination of brown and lilac, I'll feel as though I've thus explained myself.

Gerald Murnane

#14. The decline is in paper values, not in tangible goods and services ... America is now in the eighth year of prosperity as commercially defined. The former great periods of prosperity in America averaged eleven years. On this basis we now have three more years to go before the tailspin.

Stuart Chase

#15. Looking at you like you were Christmas. Even when you were angry. Even when you thought you hated me. Even when you were with him. You've always been a gift to me." "A

Stylo Fantome

#16. Soon after I left university, I came up with another definition of a literary critic or would be critic: someoone who uses churlish towards the end of an article or review.

Gerald Murnane

#17. I hope you do exist. Even though hope is as intangible as belief, I am not hostile to it.

Craig Lancaster

#18. In this perilous times, we have more preachers of the Word than doers of thw Word. In other words, Not all preachers are doers.
May God may you and I doers of the Word

Abegunde Sunday O.