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....

I'm incredibly competitive in all sports in a way that is so mystifying to my wife because she grew up....

The discovery in art is often gradual, a process of minor discoveries riddled with uncertainties and....

You know that feeling when you first arrive in a new city? However tired you are, however shattered by....

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....

The perfect life, the perfect lie, I realised after Christmas, is one which prevents you from doing that....

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