Top 22 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. CHAPTER XXXVIII CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN MR. AND MRS. BUMBLE, AND MONKS, AT THEIR NOCTURNAL INTERVIEW
Charles Dickens
#3. Some writers just write about their own lives. Well, I don't want to do that. I want to have a really boring life. A quiet, boring life so no one wants to write a biography. I'm the only writer in history only to have one wife, for instance.
T.C. Boyle
#4. I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
Ed Westwick
#5. The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#6. 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
#7. We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but by his fantasies as well.
Richard Hofstadter
#8. Why go further and further,
Look, happiness is right here.
Learn how to grab hold of luck,
For luck is always there.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#9. Rainbows are said to be beautiful!
Rainbows are said to be colourful!
Rainbows may possibly be magical!
But, I have never seen a rainbow appearing in the sky!
Srinidhi.R
#10. You know you're a real grown-up when nothing but Oreos is black and white.
Maria Murnane
#11. 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
#12. Do your married friends tell you that you're too picky? Honey, they settled. Either that or they're not really your friends.
Maria Murnane
#14. An artists is someone who does something for the first time, something human, something that touches another.
Seth
#16. 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
#17. The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
Idries Shah
#18. It has never at any time been possible to fit the resurrection of Jesus into any world view except a world view of which it is the basis.
Lesslie Newbigin
#19. I suspect that the only thing that will take Articles Two and Three out of the Irish Constitution is when the bombs begin to blow in Dublin in the way that they have been in Belfast and in London.
Norman Tebbit
#20. In the current febrile climate Isis needs Donald Trump and Donald Trump needs Isis.
Jack Dromey
#21. 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
#22. I'm a one-hundred-percent, made-in-Florida, dope-smugglin', time-sharin', spring-breakin', log-flumin', double-occupancy discount vacation. I'm a tall glass of orange juice and a day without sunshine. I'm the wind in your sails, the sun on your burn and the moon over Miami. I am the native.
Tim Dorsey
