Olivia Laing Quotes
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Olivia Laing Quotes & Sayings
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Gout, a physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient
— Ambrose Bierce
Outside the window, people threw dinner parties.
— Olivia Laing
When it hurts,' wrote the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz, 'we return to the banks of certain rivers,
— Olivia Laing
It turned out that capitalism alone could make people not only rich and happy but also poor, hungry, miserable, and powerless.
— Masha Gessen
Loneliness grows around them, like mould or fur, a prophylactic that inhibits contact, no matter how badly contact is desired.
— Olivia Laing
There is no possibility of permanent tenancy on this circling planet. It isn't part of the deal.
— Olivia Laing
You need reminding.
— Jodi Ellen Malpas
What I really want to do is comedy. I would love to do some guest star spots on some single-camera comedies.
— Katie Featherston
There are sights too beautiful to swallow. They stay on the rim of the eye; it cannot contain them.
— Olivia Laing
Had trouble again with twine. Mad enough to wish I was a bad tornado. Swore at God.' 18
— Olivia Laing
They'd even met, he recommended him to his own editor at Scribner, Max Perkins, suggesting Max sign up this promising young
— Olivia Laing
For the present when backed by the past is a thousand times deeper than the present when it presses so close that you can feel nothing else
— Olivia Laing
There are kinds of solitude that provide a respite from loneliness, a holiday if not a cure.
— Olivia Laing
I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.
— Terry Tempest Williams
Why do you put yourself in unsafe places? Because something in you feels fundamentally devoid of worth.
— Olivia Laing
Do you want me because you love me or because I provide you normality drag?
— Thomm Quackenbush
I can't memorize names and shake hands at the same time.
— Scott Adams
Physically, Echo Spring is nothing more than a nickname for a liquor cabinet, drawn from the brand of bourbon it contains.
— Olivia Laing
There is no other help or hope for human weakness but God's love and patience.
— Louisa May Alcott
You can be lonely anywhere, but there is a particular flavour to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, surrounded by millions of people.
— Olivia Laing
You have to be brave and good things will come to you. I
— Tania Raymonde
When violence occurs anywhere, it is everybody's problem,
— Patricia Cornwell
When that theory is isolated from known facts, it is likely not to be productive.
— Patricia Churchland