Quotes by : Geoff Dyer

In his book Real Presences, George Steiner asks us to "imagine a society in which all talk about the....

My greatest urge in life is to do nothing. It's not even an absence of motivation, a lack, for I do have....

It occurred to Jeff that he had entered the vague phase of his life. He had a vague idea of things, a....

We'd never seen anything as green as these rice paddies. It was not just the paddies themselves: the....

Have regrets. They are fuel. On the page they flare into desire.

I think I got into travelling because it was so not in my blood, so against my tendency to just stay....

I always like to be in the presence of people who are good at and love their jobs, Irrespective of their....

People say it's not what happens in your life that matters, it's what you think happened. But this qualification,....

It occurred to Jeff that he had entered the vague phase of his life. He had a vague idea of things, a....

I am still moved by passages of Marx: the 'Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right,' for example, where,....