Damon Galgut Quotes

It's been unsettling to discover that every form of narrative, even one that purports to tell the truth, is a kind of lying.

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• Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Funny
  • Me
  • Hilarious

• I do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Remember
  • Cats
  • Philadelphia

• My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • America
  • Change
  • Ignorance

• If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Up
  • World
  • Change

• I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.

  

  Action Bronson
  • You
  • Like
  • Without

• I liked to play dress-up.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Up
  • Play
  • Liked

• Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Soul
  • Relationship
  • Spiritual

• I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Up
  • Enjoy

• Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • You
  • Best
  • Circumstances

• Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!

  

  Jack Germond
  • Heart
  • True
  • Newspaper

• Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Always
  • Charming
  • Rehearsals

• All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Earth
  • Military
  • Blue

• Everyone has a breakup in their lives, and I think everyone should experience love.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Lives

• I don't subscribe to the thinking that being typecast is a bad thing.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Thinking
  • Bad
  • Being

• What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Up
  • Die
  • Car

• When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Really
  • Hurts
  • Says

• Ability is a poor man's wealth.

  

  John Wooden

• The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it has been cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Truth
  • Assumption

• So we, Democrats, have a responsibility there, every one of us, both to try to treat the Republicans with respect and as human beings to try to work with them on every issue we can, and then if those cannons are fired at us, we've got to stand up and fight back. If you lay down and you look like a deer caught in the headlights, then you will confirm the assault. And so we have to fight back.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Responsibility
  • Human Beings
  • Democrats

• They just think I'm a white dude. Every once in a while someone thinks I'm Jewish. I get a lot of stuff, but never Latino.

  

  James Roday

• I came to New York in 1948 at 19, after one term at Harvard. Well, Harvard wasn't for me at all.

  

  Bill Cunningham The Box Tops

• It's been unsettling to discover that every form of narrative, even one that purports to tell the truth, is a kind of lying.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Truth
  • Kind
  • Truth Is