Alexander Theroux Quotes

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Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all.

Alexander Theroux

September: it was the most beautiful of words, he'd always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.

Alexander Theroux

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.

Alexander Theroux

If on a friend's bookshelf You cannot find Joyce or Sterne Cervantes, Rabelais, or Burton, You are in danger, face the fact, So kick him first or punch him hard And from him hide behind a curtain.

Alexander Theroux

The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality.

Alexander Theroux

Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

Alexander Theroux