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Damon Galgut Quotes

I work by hand, with a fountain pen, in bound notebooks I buy in India Picture Quote #1

Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing Picture Quote #1

I wrote large chunks of ‘The Impostor’ and ‘The Good Doctor’ on a beach in Goa Picture Quote #1

Perhaps cliche is nothing more than the weight of the past pinning down your mind. In this sense, imaginative freedom is a way of finding the future, though it isn’t so easy to do Picture Quote #1

For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise Picture Quote #1

I’m fascinated by how much has changed from one generation to another. There are young people growing up now for whom apartheid is just a distant memory and the idea of military service is an abstract notion Picture Quote #1

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I like to believe that if you pay close attention to the sentences as they unfold, they will draw you in rather than pushing you away Picture Quote #1

There’s no theme, no moral to be learned, except for the knowledge that lightning can strike from a clear blue sky one morning and take away everything you’ve built, everything you’ve counted on, leaving wreckage and no meaning behind. It can happen to anyone, it can happen to you Picture Quote #1

Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal, to some extent, with the disjuncture between past and present Picture Quote #1

I go for long walks in Newlands Forest in Cape Town, and I go to the Turkish baths on Sunday mornings Picture Quote #1

I think the impulse took shape in early childhood when I was very ill with lymphoma for a number of years. I spent a lot of time in hospitals and sick-rooms, being read to by various relatives, and I learned to associate books with love and attention Picture Quote #1

I think there’s something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things Picture Quote #1

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Being gay myself, I’m naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women Picture Quote #1

Things happen once only and are never repeated, never return. Except in memory Picture Quote #1

Poetry was syllable and rhythm. Poetry was the measurement of breath. Poetry was time make audible. Poetry evoked the present moment; poetry was the antidote to history. Poetry was language free from habit Picture Quote #1

There’s no theme, no moral to be learned, except for the knowledge that lightning can strike from a clear blue sky one morning and take away everything you’ve built, everything you’ve counted on, leaving wreckage and no meaning behind. It can happen to anyone, it can happen to you Picture Quote #1

A journey is a gesture inscribed in space, it vanishes even as it’s made. You go from one place to another place, and on to somewhere else again, and already behind you there is no trace that you were ever there Picture Quote #1

In his clearest moments he thinks he has lost the ability to love, people or places or things, most of all the person and place and thing that he is. Without love nothing has value, nothing can be made to matter very much Picture Quote #1

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If I had done this, if I had said that, in the end you are always more tormented by what you didn’t do than what you did, actions already performed can always be rationalized in time, the neglected deed might have changed the world Picture Quote #1

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I work by hand, with a fountain pen, in bound notebooks I buy in India (Damon Galgut Quotes) Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing (Damon Galgut Quotes) I wrote large chunks of ‘The Impostor’ and ‘The Good Doctor’ on a beach in Goa (Damon Galgut Quotes) Perhaps cliche is nothing more than the weight of the past pinning down your mind. In this sense, imaginative freedom is a way of finding the future, though it isn’t so easy to do. (Damon Galgut Quotes) For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise. (Damon Galgut Quotes) I’m fascinated by how much has changed from one generation to another. There are young people growing up now for whom apartheid is just a distant memory and the idea of military service is an abstract notion. (Damon Galgut Quotes) I like to believe that if you pay close attention to the sentences as they unfold, they will draw you in rather than pushing you away. (Damon Galgut Quotes) There’s no theme, no moral to be learned, except for the knowledge that lightning can strike from a clear blue sky one morning and take away everything you’ve built, everything you’ve counted on, leaving wreckage and no meaning behind. It can happen to anyone, it can happen to you. (Damon Galgut Quotes) Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal, to some extent, with the disjuncture between past and present. (Damon Galgut Quotes) I go for long walks in Newlands Forest in Cape Town, and I go to the Turkish baths on Sunday mornings. (Damon Galgut Quotes) I think the impulse took shape in early childhood when I was very ill with lymphoma for a number of years. I spent a lot of time in hospitals and sick-rooms, being read to by various relatives, and I learned to associate books with love and attention. (Damon Galgut Quotes) I think there’s something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things. (Damon Galgut Quotes) Being gay myself, I’m naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women. (Damon Galgut Quotes) Things happen once only and are never repeated, never return. Except in memory (Damon Galgut Quotes) Poetry was syllable and rhythm. Poetry was the measurement of breath. Poetry was time make audible. Poetry evoked the present moment; poetry was the antidote to history. Poetry was language free from habit (Damon Galgut Quotes) There’s no theme, no moral to be learned, except for the knowledge that lightning can strike from a clear blue sky one morning and take away everything you’ve built, everything you’ve counted on, leaving wreckage and no meaning behind. It can happen to anyone, it can happen to you (Damon Galgut Quotes) A journey is a gesture inscribed in space, it vanishes even as it’s made. You go from one place to another place, and on to somewhere else again, and already behind you there is no trace that you were ever there (Damon Galgut Quotes) In his clearest moments he thinks he has lost the ability to love, people or places or things, most of all the person and place and thing that he is. Without love nothing has value, nothing can be made to matter very much (Damon Galgut Quotes) If I had done this, if I had said that, in the end you are always more tormented by what you didn’t do than what you did, actions already performed can always be rationalized in time, the neglected deed might have changed the world (Damon Galgut Quotes)