Rishard Geter Quotes & Sayings

Nice things are nicer than nasty ones. — Kingsley Amis

There are books, that one has for twenty years without reading them, that one always keeps at hand, that one takes along from city to city, from country to country, carefully packed, even when there is very little room, and perhaps one leafs through them while removing them from a trunk; yet one carefully refrains from reading even a complete sentence. Then after twenty years, there comes a moment when suddenly, as though under a high compulsion, one cannot help taking in such a book from beginning to end, at one sitting: it is like a revelation. Now one knows why one made such a fuss about it. It had to be with one for a long time; it had to travel; it had to occupy space; it had to be a burden; and now it has reached the goal of its voyage, now it reveals itself, now it illuminates the twenty bygone years it mutely lived with one. It could not say so much if it had not been there mutely the whole time, and what idiot would dare to assert that the same things had always been in it. — Elias Canetti

Being me is a job - is labour so time-consuming and expensive that I have to have a second job just to support it. So that I can drink, I have to get drink and that isn't something people give away and then there's drink that I need because I have drunk and the other drink I have to keep around because, sooner or later, I will drink it. That's a full-time occupation: that's like being a miner, or a nurse. — A. L. Kennedy

He said you could tell about a person not from what he believed, but by what worried him. — Chang-rae Lee

as our lives become less and less genuine, we require bigger and bigger thrills to scare us, for just a moment, into feeling human again. — Johnny Truant

Turns out faerie-proofing a person required a length of chain that one could find in any hardware store ... — Cherie Colyer

When you write a song, there's no point keeping it to yourself. — Iwan Rheon