Geoff Dyer Quotes
Sharing a room with one person is worse than sharing with six, and sharing with six is in some ways worse than sharing with sixty.
Geoff Dyer
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
Zygmunt Bauman
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Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me.
Taye Diggs
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I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
Karen Armstrong
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The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled. We add and abbreviate stuff.
Callan McAuliffe
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From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles.
Pat Metheny
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Why? Surely they can find other men.
Bertrand Russell
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I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.
George McGovern
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Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.
Ferdinand de Saussure
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
Sophocles
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Please, please, please, my dear competition. We can beat each other and fight each other as much as we want and argue, but do not predict how a system really works when you really don't know and don't want to know. Either be better informed, or don't do it.
Hasso Plattner
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Sharing a room with one person is worse than sharing with six, and sharing with six is in some ways worse than sharing with sixty.
Geoff Dyer
