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Teju Cole Quotes

Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three Picture Quote #1

It wasn’t a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge Picture Quote #1

To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone Picture Quote #1

I became aware of just how fleeting the sense of happiness was, and how flimsy its basis: a warm restaurant after having come in from the rain, the smell of food and wine, interesting conversation, daylight falling weakly on the polished cherrywood of the tables. It took so little to move the mood from one level to another, as one might push pieces on a chessboard. Even to be aware of this, in the midst of a happy moment, was to push one of those pieces, and to become slightly less happy Picture Quote #1

Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing projects and luxury hotels, the fire escapes and city parks Picture Quote #1

We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float Picture Quote #1

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The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm Picture Quote #1

There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner Picture Quote #1

I often say I’ve spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours Picture Quote #1

If you see a theme that you might want to take a photo of, you sort of stand there for an hour waiting for it to resolve, waiting for the geometry of a theme to be exactly what you want them to be. That was my process to get photos Picture Quote #1

I’m not trying to be in your face and take a picture that is like a journalistic kind of image. I got interested in a kind of complicated, compiled, visual field Picture Quote #1

One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent Picture Quote #1

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For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words Picture Quote #1

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Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three (Teju Cole Quotes) It wasn’t a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge (Teju Cole Quotes) To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone (Teju Cole Quotes) I became aware of just how fleeting the sense of happiness was, and how flimsy its basis: a warm restaurant after having come in from the rain, the smell of food and wine, interesting conversation, daylight falling weakly on the polished cherrywood of the tables. It took so little to move the mood from one level to another, as one might push pieces on a chessboard. Even to be aware of this, in the midst of a happy moment, was to push one of those pieces, and to become slightly less happy (Teju Cole Quotes) Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing projects and luxury hotels, the fire escapes and city parks (Teju Cole Quotes) We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float (Teju Cole Quotes) The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm (Teju Cole Quotes) There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner (Teju Cole Quotes) I often say I’ve spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours (Teju Cole Quotes) If you see a theme that you might want to take a photo of, you sort of stand there for an hour waiting for it to resolve, waiting for the geometry of a theme to be exactly what you want them to be. That was my process to get photos (Teju Cole Quotes) I’m not trying to be in your face and take a picture that is like a journalistic kind of image. I got interested in a kind of complicated, compiled, visual field (Teju Cole Quotes) One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent (Teju Cole Quotes) For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words (Teju Cole Quotes)

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