Marcel Theroux Quotes

#1. Margaret Atwood, J.G. Ballard, Ray Bradbury, Jim Crace, Arthur C. Clarke, Russell Hoban, Anna Kavan, Doris Lessing, Cormac McCarthy, Walter M. Miller, Tim O'Brien, Will Self and Marcel Theroux,

Bill Bryson

#2. No one tells you this, how having children multiplies your capacity for suffering.

Marcel Theroux

#3. I thought it was a novel."
"It is."
"What's it about??"
"You'll have to buy it to find out, but it's got everything: love, death and an amusing dog."
"This one's got a recipe for apple crumble," I said.
"Don't you love that about the novel? The capaciousness?" he said.

Marcel Theroux

#4. The mustard on the roof of my mouth gave me the feeling that someone was removing my nasal hair with a blowtorch.

Marcel Theroux

#5. Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life.

Marcel Theroux

#6. Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.

Bill Walton

#7. Everyone expects to be at the end of something. What no one expects is to be at the end of everything.

Marcel Theroux

#8. Because before you acquired language, you didn't exist.

Marcel Theroux

#9. He didn't seem conventionally insane in any way that I could understand. But there was no way of comprehending him. In some eerie and fundamental way, he didn't appear to belong to our world. But that didn't seem the same as being mad.

Marcel Theroux

#10. The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without a consciousness to tickle them into life, those books were dead.

Marcel Theroux

#11. We don't get much of a spring or fall to speak of. Up here, for ten months a year, the weather has teeth in it.

Marcel Theroux

#12. Because of God's knowledge, you and I are always understood.

Elizabeth George

#13. I have woken up to find that I am made of words.

Marcel Theroux

#14. Imagine: If a man who shakes hands up and down meets a man who shakes hands side to side, what will happen?
Nathan looked perplexed but he extended his hand all the same. As they shook, their clasped hands went round and round in circles.

Marcel Theroux

#15. It is the heaven-born instinct of a gracious soul to seek shelter from all ills beneath the wings of Jehovah. A hypocrite, when afflicted by God, resents the infliction, and, like a slave, would run from the Master who has scourged him

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#16. How beautiful it is when one lives completely and not with just a part of oneself. When one is full to the rim and calm because there is nothing more to get in.

Erich Maria Remarque

#17. I had always believed that right was like north to my father: a thing as real as sunlight, a place on the map, the arrow on a compass.

Marcel Theroux

#18. There is something talismanic about familiar words.

Marcel Theroux

#19. The man who decided to die on 12th hour,dies on 11th hour...

Hlovate

#20. Pushkin wrote Turkish poems and he was never in Turkey.

Ilya Ilf

#21. What arrogance made us think we were far enough to be safe?

Marcel Theroux