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Mouth to Mouth QUOTES

Mouth to Mouth QUOTES

1 " There is no more powerful skill for success in any field than knowing how to ask the right questions. "

― Antoine Wilson , Mouth to Mouth

2 " Money sloshed around via wire, and artworks of dubious provenance moved from collector to collector trailed by 1031 like-kind exchange tax forms, deferring taxes even as the work appreciated, or so Jeff understood, when Fiona explained it. "

― Antoine Wilson , Mouth to Mouth

3 " She certainly carried that arrogance with her at dinner, and again when she dropped off the transparencies. He was surprised to hear that she’d crumbled so publicly, but then again, those kinds of people were often more fragile than they seemed. Harder, but more brittle. "

― Antoine Wilson , Mouth to Mouth

4 " love my wife,” Francis said. “I love her deeply. I wouldn’t be the man I am without her.” He shifted in his chair. “That said, were she to leave me, as she has the right to, not to mention the reason, I could bear the absence of her affections. "

― Antoine Wilson , Mouth to Mouth

5 " And she is older, in my defense, the way Alison goes on you’d think I’d been fucking an undergraduate. In any case, once Astrid and I had established relations, I understood that they might cross paths, so we were exceptionally discreet about our . . . connection. "

― Antoine Wilson , Mouth to Mouth

6 " And then there’s the matter of the show. Did he promise her a show? Is this how the gallery works? Is this how he and my mom got together in the first place? How many women has he done this to? His eye, his eye, everybody’s always talking about his eye. But is it an eye for art or for ass? "

― Antoine Wilson , Mouth to Mouth

7 " Something the doctors hadn’t been able to figure out earlier, because, he found out later, Francis hadn’t divulged to them his habitual cocaine use. "

― Antoine Wilson , Mouth to Mouth

8 " Naturally, nobody mentioned his infidelities, his treachery, his tendency toward domination and humiliation, his utterly mercenary approach to most art, his yelling, his firing people on a whim, his inability to or lack of desire to recognize the inner lives of others, his avarice, his all-around tendency to make "

― Antoine Wilson , Mouth to Mouth

9 " He’d dethroned the king, married the princess, and taken over the kingdom. Did he really expect me to believe he’d done so ingenuously, blundering forward with a heart full of the best intentions? I think he did. What was more, in that moment at least, he seemed to believe it himself. "

― Antoine Wilson , Mouth to Mouth

10 " Jeff was called “dawg,” “bro,” “dude,” and “Holmes,” and "

― Antoine Wilson , Mouth to Mouth

11 " Plus he’d put on weight, become more solid in the way so many of us did after college, continuing to grow into manhood long after we thought we’d arrived. "

― Antoine Wilson , Mouth to Mouth

12 " Every sighting of this mystery man yielded a frisson, as if he were my guardian angel keeping tabs on me, followed by a pang of anxiety at the thought that I might never see him again. "

― Antoine Wilson , Mouth to Mouth

13 " had already spent hours in the airport, my tickets having been purchased last minute and at the cheapest possible fare—a red-eye from LA, a layover at JFK, a flight to Frankfurt, a four-hour train ride to Berlin—and the idea of a first-class lounge was so appealing I could have hugged old Jeff right there and then. "

― Antoine Wilson , Mouth to Mouth

14 " Whether this was fashion or indigence was never clear to me. "

― Antoine Wilson , Mouth to Mouth

15 " Stop thinking. From the moment one enters the airport, one is subject to a host of procedures and mechanisms designed to get one from point A to point B. Stop thinking and be the cargo. "

― Antoine Wilson , Mouth to Mouth

16 " don’t think I wanted so much to be married as I was trying to wipe out the anxiety I was feeling about our inevitable drifting apart. "

― Antoine Wilson , Mouth to Mouth

17 " In the wake of the breakup I was miserable, no real money, no close friends. I was living in a house in the canyons, house-sitting for an actor I knew. Actually, I was house-sitting for an actor who was house-sitting for an actor. I had nothing going on. "

― Antoine Wilson , Mouth to Mouth

18 " To artists, he was the lefty son of Klaus, a man who lived by his values, who knew hardship. To himself he was Francis Arsenault, his own invention, ex nihilo. "

― Antoine Wilson , Mouth to Mouth

19 " The only reason Francis is in this business is because it’s the most easily manipulated market in the world, and he’s a master manipulator. "

― Antoine Wilson , Mouth to Mouth

20 " We’ve got a gallery here, in Chelsea. Plus London and Berlin. That’s why I’m trying to get to Germany. For an opening. "

― Antoine Wilson , Mouth to Mouth