"September: it was the most beautiful of words, heâ€™d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret."

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Source : Alexander Theroux (1981). “Darconville's cat”, Doubleday Books

Alexander Theroux

#Beautiful Quotes #Regret Quotes #Flower Quotes

“I wish my nose was smaller and that I was a little taller. I also had this perennial pimple problem, so I felt people were just being polite when they said I was beautiful.”
“There would be no history as we know it, no religion, no metaphysics or aesthetics as we have lived them, without an initial act of trust, of confiding, more fundamental, more axiomatic by far than any â€œsocial contractâ€ or covenant with the postulate of the divine. This instauration of trust, this entrance of man into the city of man, is that between word and world.”
“We ourselves, though we're guilty of every sin, are not just a work of God: we're image. Yet we have cut ourselves off from our Creator in both soul and body. Did we get eyes to serve lust, the tongue to speak evil, ears to hear evil, a throat for gluttony, a stomach to be gluttony's ally, hands to do violence, genitals for unchaste excesses, feet for an erring life? Was the soul put in the body to think up traps, fraud, and injustice? I don't think so.”
“My books are written with a strong chronological spine.”
“However, unlike some of my friends and students, I don't think it's a laughing matter. I think it is frightening to see what outrageous stories can be told in the United States and then are accepted by many educated people and academics as facts. Movies get awards, books become best sellers, heroes are made, and people become wealthy as a result of dishonest caricatures of Iranian people and society.”
“What went wrong? Nothing and everything.”
“In a novel, language is your principal tool, you try to build pictures in the mind of the reader. When you write a screenplay, the language is just a transition, the final goal is a picture on the screen, it's the only thing the audience sees.”

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“Victory won't come to me unless I go to it; a grape tendril ties a knot in knots till knotted thirty times”

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