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Quote by Geoff Dyer

“All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge.”

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Geoff Dyer is a British writer known for his distinctive travel literature and essays. His works often use travel as a backdrop to explore themes of personal identity, cultural differences, and memory. more

“In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female…In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be-looked-at-ness”

World Has Beens Said Strong Pleasure Roles Female Impact Males Appearance Active Traditional Visuals Splits Passive Erotic Imbalance Exhibitionist

Book:Visual and Other Pleasures

Source: Visual and Other Pleasures

“Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history.”

Ifs Children Enough Past Strong Accepting Blood Understood Strong Enough Drained

Book:Fugitive Pieces

Source: Fugitive Pieces

“Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.”

War Seems Strikes Contradiction Stalking Simultaneous

Book:Fugitive Pieces

Source: Fugitive Pieces

“The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing. It steers us like magnetism, a spirit torque. This is how one becomes undone by a smell, a word, a place, the photo of a mountain of shoes. By love that closes its mouth before calling a name.”

Past Spirit Names Happened Calling Mountain Mouths Shadow Rain Longing Shoes Smell Invisible Biographies Undone Steers Magnetism Torque

Book:Fugitive Pieces

Source: Fugitive Pieces

“The truth doesn't care what we think of it.”

Thinking Care

Book:Fugitive Pieces

Source: Fugitive Pieces

“History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments.”

Two Moments Memories Space Share Events Time And Space History And Memory

Book:Fugitive Pieces

Source: Fugitive Pieces

“History is the gradual instant”

Instant

Book:Fugitive Pieces

Source: Fugitive Pieces

“Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how to live: the free adaptation that sacrifices detail to meaning, the strict crib that sacrifices meaning to exactitude. The poet moves from life to language, the translator moves from language to life; both, like the immigrant, try to identify the invisible, what's between the lines, the mysterious implications.”

Source: Fugitive Pieces

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