Hunting And Gathering Quotes
"It's been a long time since I weighed that little. I . . . I've had better times in my life, I think."
"The world today is not like in Zhu Da’s time and you have to start speaking again. You’ve got to, do you understand?"
"The way you eat it would be money down the drain."
"If you think we’re here on earth to frolic around and pick daisies, you’re just plain naive, young lady."
"You really believe that if I had said, ‘Not this evening, I’ve got to clean my trunk,’ you wouldn’t have thought I was out of my mind?"
"I don’t want them to take my tools because I’d just die, do you understand? I would absolutely die."
"You should see the undergrowth at my parents’ place, it’s a real disaster."
"You’ve got only one color to work with and yet you can suggest everything."
"She was clever, and she knew how to take advantage of every spare moment which the need to catch her breath between two spells of embracing afforded her, in order to wrench from the King—the nominations or advances she desired."
"The very idea of addressing an audience, no matter how small, makes me break into a cold sweat."
"Because of the spots on the mirror and her short hair, she looked like a kid with chicken pox."
"But there was one guy, all the way down at the end of the hall on the left, who was really beginning to piss her off big-time."
"The world is already a sufficiently dreadful place without us falling out, is it not?"
"You see, now I recognize the sound of your motorbike from a distance, and I wait and watch for you to take off your helmet before I jump into bed and put my grumpy face on."
"It wasn’t music, it was noise. Enough to drive you crazy."
"You used to live on your own, in a house you loved, and I loved it too."
"The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, the most moving . . . And even the greatest virtuoso in the world will never be able to give you even a fraction of the emotion that a beautiful voice can give you. That is our share in the divine."
"You can’t sell off a love story just like that. Well, okay, maybe some people manage but not him."
"What use are emotions you keep all to yourself?"
"What the fuck was he supposed to do over at Kermadec’s place? Booze, smoke, watch DVDs and leaf through car maintenance magazines on the toilet?"
"Philibert doesn’t even take as many pills either. You don’t need to leave. I’ve got a pal who can put me up until after the holidays."
"I guess I’ll have to say . . . This album is dedicated to you . . ."
"I don’t really feel like talking about it. Tell me about your travel journal instead."
"It’s slavery. You’ve seen my life. You call that a life?"
"We’re not very talkative, y’know. We’re too tired to spend our time blabbing."
"What’s the point of people stuffing their guts like this? They were going to burst!"
"We don’t cook to make things look pretty, for Christ’s sake."
"Like athletes still gunning, they couldn’t relax."
"The fun part is getting drunk together—otherwise it’s sort of depressing."
"He loved speed. He really did. More than anything on earth."
"Life is a jungle, a struggle for life and all that bullshit, we already know that by heart."
"She wears it every day, that scarf you made."
"Leave your rags and napkins in the same drawer, life is more fun when there’s a bit of mess."
"She’s old. She’s alone. Her whole life she slept in a big comfy bed like this one with a woolen mattress and a crucifix above her head and now she’s pining away in a sort of shit-awful metal box."
"Can you tell how dark the night is here? How beautiful the moon is? How the stars shine?"
"Her room looks over a parking lot that’s lit all the time, and she just listens for the rattle of the food carts, conversations of the nurses’ aides, her neighbors moaning and their televisions blaring all night long."
"My father, I never knew; a stranger knocked up my mom in the back of a car."
"She said, I know you’re doing this on purpose, so too bad. You can just stay wet, then."
"I wasn’t a kid anymore, I didn’t want my grandparents’ cuddles and all that shit."
"No, no, I really meant ‘slim.’ When Franck told me about you for the first time, I remember, that was all he said, ‘Oh, Grandma, she’s so skinny. If you could see how skinny she is,’ but now that I see you how you really are, I don’t agree with him."
"I married late, for a start. And like everyone, I had my love story too, you know. Or did I?"
"You’re not disgusted by my old body? Are you sure?"
"Shame doesn’t get you anywhere, believe me. It’s only there to please other people who think they’re so perfect."
"It was more insidious perhaps. Like a slow drip. And then I, I don’t know how I managed. I probably handled it badly, but I . . ."
"Everything is beautiful. Everywhere. Everything."
"Whether I create a point or a line, everything will be alive."
"I don’t know anything," she said, "and I’m not sure what I believe."
"At the age of six, I was seized by the mania of drawing the shape of objects."
"By the age of fifty, I had published an infinite number of drawings, but everything produced before the age of seventy is not worthy of consideration."
"It was at the age of sixty-three that I gradually began to understand the structure of true nature, of animals, trees, birds, and insects."
"As a result, by the age of eighty, I will have made still greater progress; at ninety I will penetrate into the mystery of things; at one hundred I will have attained a degree of wonder and by the time I am one hundred and ten, everything I create, whether a point or a line, will be alive."
"Eating shit with sterling silver cutlery and serving a revolting cheap wine in a crystal carafe: maybe I’m thick but there’s something here I just don’t get."