Quotes About Perec

#1. I would say that Edgar Allan Poe, [Georges] Perec, Thomas Pynchon, and [Jorge Luis] Borges are all boy-writers. These are writers who take ... a kind of demonic joy in writing.

Paul Auster

#2. To write: to try meticulously to retain something, to cause something to survive; to wrest a few precise scraps from the void as it grows, to leave somewhere a furrow, a trace, a mark or a few signs.

Georges Perec

#3. He had not touched me. He did not need to. His presence had affected me in such a way that I felt as if he had caressed me for a long time.

Anais Nin

#4. What a marvellous invention man is! He can blow on his hands to warm them up, and blow on his soup to cool it down.

Georges Perec

#5. Question your tea spoons.

Georges Perec

#6. What they liked in things they called luxury was only the money behind them; they loved wealth before they loved life.

Georges Perec

#7. Chess is a fathead and feudal game.

Georges Perec

#8. As soon as you close your eyes, the adventure of sleep begins."

-from "A Man Asleep

Georges Perec

#9. The idea occurred to him when he was twenty. At first it was only a vague idea, a question looming - what should I do? - with an answer taking shape: nothing.

Georges Perec

#10. If I can put on my album in a car or on my headphones and listen to the whole thing and love it, that's what I'm going to be happy putting out there.

Ed Sheeran

#11. A gap will yawn, achingly, day by day, it will turn into a colossal pit, an abyss without foundation, a gradual invasion of words by margins, blank and insignificant, so that all of us, to a man, will find nothing to say.

Georges Perec

#12. I have neither one nor the other, and that has been going on for so long now that I have stopped wondering whether it is hate or love which gives us the strength to continue this life of lies, which provides the formidable energy that allows us to go on suffering, and hoping.

Georges Perec

#13. It seems we only sleep well in our own bed.

Georges Perec

#14. Above all, they had the cinema. And this was probably the only area where they had learned everything from their own sensibilities.

Georges Perec

#15. There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.

Alexander Hamilton

#16. Despite the Saint-Nectaire, this analysis would be absolutely reasonable if it did not sin grievously by omission

Georges Perec

#17. With Charlie Brown, it was about loneliness and isolation. I always thought that the thing about Charlie Brown and those characters was the absence of the parents. Half the strip was about who wasn't there. The parents were never in the picture.

Matt Groening

#18. why count the buses? probably because they're recognizable and regular:they cut up time, they punctuate the background noise; ultimately, they're foreseeable

Georges Perec

#19. It is on a day like this one,
a little later a little earlier
that you descover without surprise
that something is wrong
that you don't know how to live
and you will never know

Georges Perec

#20. Every library answers a twofold need, which is often also a twofold obsession: that of conserving certain objects (books) and that of organizing them in certain ways

Georges Perec

#21. That's the bravest thing, I think: not to be brave for yourself but for a buddy when it gets you nothing and costs you everything.

Stephen Hunter