"When you're expecting bad news you have to be prepared for it a long time ahead so that when the telegram comes you can already pronounce the syllables in your mouth before opening it."

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Source : Robert Pinget (1966). “Mahu: Or, The Material: a Novel”, Riverrun Press

Robert Pinget

#Long Quotes #Mouths Quotes #News Quotes

“I like to get something that is impossible to verbally order. Sometimes it's something the person is not even conscious of, and it's something you could never ask of them specifically. It's just there.”
“Hills tell old stories. Cliffs are poets with harps.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.”
“He went up to heaven, located his dog. Not only that, but he rejoined his arm.”
“I didn't have toys and bikes; I'd go out and pick up rocks. I was into science and nature. It was my first love. I was going to be a vet and a marine biologist. I went to university and studied biology for two weeks and I just thought: "I've been conned!"”
“If you're going to stay in the Olympics, you've got to be entertaining and get sponsorship.”
“Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)”
“Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.”

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