Joanna Walsh Quotes

• “We long for frost, we who have waited so long for summer.”

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• “The time spent cleaning up outweighs the time consuming.”

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• “Always you wish to be in two places at the same time, always you want to be connected.”

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• “All holidays are nightmares: you save up all year and what do you find at the other end but someone else’s house with all their own particular domestic nasties?”

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• “Drunk. Something that happens to you, like a glass of water, and that happens in the past tense, even as you are drunk in the present, as the action taken to provoke the state was taken in the past.”

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• “I drink so the scum of things rises to the surface.”

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• “When she becomes powerful, it is not a power she will know what to do with.”

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• “But there is not much time to regret other people, their actions or inactions. Isn’t drowning itself enough for one day? Here”

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• “pebbles with no carvings may be equally missing from the whole.”

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• “The surface of the sea is round when viewed at eye level, like the horizon, like the earth. It tips, flat as a plate, each time I do, both hemispheres reorienting around me whatever my angle.”

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• “We are all trapped behind the same glass.”

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• “Not everyone can face the sea, not everyone can be in the shade. The”

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• “It seemed masculine, this pursuit of pattern, or she ascribed it to masculinity because it was something she did not do herself. Geological”

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• “In your hours of leisure no sooner do you go somewhere than you want to be somewhere else;”

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• “How long does a thought take to form? Years sometimes.”

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• “Luckily there are so very many new places in the world. II.”

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• “There are hidden patterns in everything. I should be looking at the waitresses who come from somewhere else and who are not here for a holiday, for whom being here is only a step to being elsewhere.”

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• “The sound of the waves is pitched and modulated precisely so as not to intrude, distract, but so as to remain constantly audible: perfection.”

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• “Why was it impossible to forget what had happened, impossible to look at time only one way? Holidays”

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• “The first effect of abroad is strangeness. It makes me strange to myself. I experience a transfer, a transparency.”

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• “They make me sure the view is a view, even though sometimes they are in the way of it. A”

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• “Distracted by noises, bewitched by things that sparkled, we lulled ourselves to sleep, overtired, tearful, telling ourselves tomorrow it would be okay. In”

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• “We too have built an edifice from which no one wants anything but escape.”

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• “Vertigo is the sense that if I fall I will fall not toward the earth but into space.”

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• “I realize that my body is enjoying looking out of the window, and that this is because it has not been asked to do anything for some time.”

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