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Patrick McGrath QUOTES

Patrick McGrath QUOTES

1 " We see nobody clearly. We see only the ghosts of absent others, and mistake for reality the fictions we construct from blueprints drawn up in early childhood. This is the problem. "

― Patrick McGrath , Trauma

2 " Our conversations were like sex, our sex like conversation. "

― Patrick McGrath , Trauma

3 " Soon enough the tears came but of course nobody came down to see if she was all right, it was just the slut in the kitchen who'd ruined their lives, getting drunk of neat gin and howling for her lost lunatic offer. "

― Patrick McGrath

4 " Solitude is a terrible thing, for it permits the imagination to picture, in detail, that which perhaps should never be articulated. "

― Patrick McGrath , The Grotesque

5 " Isolated people, those who live alone, are always conscious of their condition in the homes of families. "

― Patrick McGrath , Trauma

6 " I often wondered how it would be to tramp off into the mountains and keep going until I was exhausted, then simply sink into the snow and fall asleep. Then the wolves could have me.
To want to die in the forest and be eaten by wolves: another marker of incipient madness. "

― Patrick McGrath , Trauma

7 " Strange how reluctant I was to acknowledge that control of my fate lay beyond my own conscious will. Habit of a lifetime, I suppose. "

― Patrick McGrath , The Grotesque

8 " A tissue of small sounds filled the room, a bird, a clock, a voice from another garden. What we call silence. "

― Patrick McGrath , Dr. Haggard's Disease

9 " Perhaps that's the whole point about infidelity, I suggested, not that one has sex but that by doing so one puts at risk someone else's happiness? "

― Patrick McGrath

10 " For despite his confidence, and his apparent maturity, I suspected that there was in him a deep and childish need to elevate, and idealize, the love object. This is not uncommon in artists. The very nature of their work, the long periods of isolation followed by public self-display, and the associated risk of rejection all conspire to create unnaturally intense relationships with their sexual partners. Then, when disillusion occurs, as of course it must, the sense of betrayal is profound... "

― Patrick McGrath , Follia

11 " All was strange in a fog, buildings grew vague, human beings groped and became lost, the landmarks, the compass points, by which they navigated melted into nothingness and the world was transfigured into a country of the blind. But if the sighted became blind, then the blind - and for some odd reason I have always regarded myself as one of the blind - the blind became sighted, and I remember felling at home in the fog, happily at ease in the murk and gloom that so confused my neighbors. "

― Patrick McGrath , Spider

12 " Stella realized then that Charlie's unhappiness had locked him out of this community as effectively as hers had, and she felt a dull sense of confirmation, she felt she might have known, this is the nature of people, they unerringly select as their victim the one who most needs their warmth. "

― Patrick McGrath , Follia

13 " The uncanny first impression was again one of private hells coexisting in public space. "

― Patrick McGrath , Follia

14 " As we shook hands I wondered idly what her urine looked like. "

― Patrick McGrath , Dr. Haggard's Disease

15 " Люблю сырость таких дней, сырость, сумрак и густые серые тучи, потому что лишь в такую погоду чувствую себя в ладу с миром. "

― Patrick McGrath , Spider

16 " Aveva perso il controllo. Non si controlla un innamoramento, mi disse, non è possibile. E la divertiva che fosse potuto accadere in questo modo, con quest'uomo. Un paziente. Un paziente che lavorava nell'orto. Stella, le dissi, non potevi fare una scelta più scriteriata. La verità, mi rispose, è che non ho scelto affatto. "

― Patrick McGrath , Follia

17 " This is the nature of people, they unerringly select as their victim the one who most needs their warmth. "

― Patrick McGrath , Follia

18 " Être éveillé, c’est souffrir; voila le sens profond de la vie. "

― Patrick McGrath , Spider

19 " Aucune folie n’est assez profonde pour vous exclure de la communauté des fumeurs. "

― Patrick McGrath , Spider

20 " We coexisted in a state of mutual detachment. "

― Patrick McGrath , Trauma