Geoff Dyer Quotes
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
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In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.
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There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
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Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood challenges.
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I did improv for about 10 years professionally, and before that, I had done it in high school as part of an improv team. It was definitely a big part of my upbringing.
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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Cricket was my reason for living.
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If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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It's an interesting thing to play the heroes of our society, like cops and firefighters. They're the basic heroes that, as little boys and little girls, you look up to as the first heroes of your small, specific community.
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There are those who want to believe but can't, and there are those who believe as children and it's no problem for them at all.
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There's no single right place to be an entrepreneur, but certainly there's something about Silicon Valley.
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You don't want to marry somebody who's just like you.
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When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.
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I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts o' taking revenge: it can never mean as you're t' have your old feelings back again, for that's not possible.
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One of the great privileges of my life was growing up in a house without books.
