Acting to me was, and is, straightforward: you see the words on the page; memorise them; then say them out loud.
“The grey hair, which has spoken of old age at once to writers and doctors, means to a painter not just grey hair, but a certain grey – perhaps a grey with silver lights and warm shadows, perhaps an opaque cold grey, but a grey as different from other greys as one chord in music is different from others.”
― Sketches In Pen And Ink: A Bloomsbury Notebook
― Sketches In Pen And Ink: A Bloomsbury Notebook
“The two agents exchanged a look that was like stepping on a LEGO—quick and unpleasant.”
― Spell or High Water
― Spell or High Water
“In late December they embarked on an even more elaborate pas de deux when almost simultaneously the two men began to confide in separate journals, confidences nevertheless designed to be secretly read by each other.”
― Bloomsbury's Outsider: A Life of David Garnett
― Bloomsbury's Outsider: A Life of David Garnett
“You can be cynical if you want.” “I am.” “But cynicism doesn’t accomplish anything.” “Untrue,” I say. “Cynicism saves lives.”
― Wayward Son
― Wayward Son
“You’ll support a Republican president in twenty years who’s worse than Reagan,” I explained. “Worse than Reagan?” Junior asked. “How’s that possible?” “Evolution. In the future assholes will be much larger than they are today.”
― Remembrance of Things I Forgot: A Novel
― Remembrance of Things I Forgot: A Novel
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