Patrick Somerville famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I don't think of love in terms of relationships. It happens in terms of seconds, but it goes away like that, too. I pass a nurse, I love her, it ends when I go around a corner; at a restaurant I see a forlorn man at the table next to me, and I love him, and the conversation pulls me back, and it's ended. A patient comes in, and she is sick, and I love her, and then she dies, and I never see her again. This is what I live for. Don't think that it's sad.
-- Patrick Somerville

#
Puzzles are great because they're fun. But really we are drawn to puzzles because they can be solved. We love the idea of being able to put a puzzle together and it being complete: you do it perfectly, step away, and you've completed the job. There's a deep satisfaction from that, and I think we wish for the ability to do that with everything. But emotions just don't work that way, people don't work that way, relationships don't work that way.
-- Patrick Somerville

#Fun #Thinking #People
I really think you cannot ever escape your history, what you've done, who you are, and things you've tried to hide. Even if no one ever finds out the secret you're trying to keep, the cost of that keeping has been so great, that it's destroyed you anyway. In all my writing, there are people who desperately wish the past is not what it is.
-- Patrick Somerville

#Writing #Past #Thinking
I feel like I've been lucky that I've never been put in a situation where I had to keep a serious secret. But what is true of me - and has to be true of everyone who's ever been in a family - is that our idealization of reality when we're children always has to fall apart. It's the narratives we didn't know about that pop up and redraw reality. You have to be able to integrate secrets into who you are. My family does not look now like it does when I was a kid. There was divorce. There were family secrets. There was definitely a difference between what I thought was true and what was true.
-- Patrick Somerville

#Children #Fall #Kids
Elegant revenge is great. The perfect revenge that lets people see who they actually are for a moment.
-- Patrick Somerville

#Revenge #People #Perfect

I liked being challenged by music. It's good for me.
I don't really like ska.
When I know that I have played as well as I can. It doesn't matter so much whether I have won or lost. But being completely satisfied with myself? That's something that never really happens to me.
When it comes to asking for raise, you just have to do it in the right way. You may get a no, and that's fine, but ask and make sure you know when you can come back and ask again.
Don't take no as a full stop, treat it like a comma.
I have more faith now than I ever had before.
I always hesitate to say that something is lifelike.
I have very strict rules in my head that seem to me to be the way things should sound.
I grew up playing classical guitar, so everything I learned was rooted in technique, form, presentation.
I have to be pretty close to what I am.

Patrick Somerville famous quotes

You may also like: