In fact one frequently seemed to gather all sorts of similar information about subjects one had less than profound interest in.

David Markson


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If forced to choose, Giacometti once said, he would rescue a cat from a burning building before a Rembrandt.

David Markson


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How can I tell what I think until I see what I say?

David Markson


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Tennessee Williams choked to death on the plastic cap of a nasal spray.

David Markson

Stichwörter: humor



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Or was it possibly...nothing more than a read?

David Markson

Stichwörter: books



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I also believe I met William Gaddis once. He did not look Italian.

David Markson


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Tolstoy's wife copied out the entire manuscript of War and Peace in longhand seven times.

David Markson

Stichwörter: amour



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Once, I had a dream of fame.
Generally, even then, I was lonely.

David Markson

Stichwörter: existence



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Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at twenty-three—and managed to have no sexual encounter whatsoever?

David Markson

Stichwörter: t-s-eliot



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Was it Brigid Brophy who gave up on a certain Virginia Woolf novel when she discovered that Woolf believed one needed a corkscrew to open a bottle of champagne?

David Markson

Stichwörter: virginia-woolf brigid-brophy



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