Mark Z. Danielewski Quotes - Page 3

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• The thread has snapped. No sound even to mark the breaking let alone the fall. That long anticipated disintegration, when the darkest angel of all, the horror beyond all horrors, sits at last upon my chest, permanently enfolding me in its great covering wings, black as ink, veined in Bees' purple. A creature without a voice. A voice without a name. As immortal as my life. Come here at long last to summon the wind.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Fall, Angel, Wind

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• So often I wonder whether it is my right to capitalize, as I feel, so often, on the grief of others. But then I justify, in my own particular thoughts, by feeling that I can contribute a little to the understanding of what others are going through; then there is reason for doing it.

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  Grief, Understanding, Feelings

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• Write what you love. Love will hold you through the hard times and hold the world during the good times.

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  Writing, Hard Times, World

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• He [Zampano] probably would of insisted on corrections and edits, he was his own harshest critic, but I've come to believe errors, especially written errors, are often the only markers left by a solitary life: to sacrifice them is to lose the angels of personality, the riddle of a soul. In this case a very old soul. A very old riddle.

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  Believe, Angel, Sacrifice

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• Back on shore everyone was pretty messed up, but the owner/captain was by far the worst off. He ended up drunk for a week, though the only thing he ever said was "So?" The boat's gone. "So?" Your mate's dead. "So?" Hey at least you're alive. "So?" An awful word but it does harden you. It hardened me.

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  Drunk, Doe, Gone

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• No gunfire, famine, or flies. Just lots of toothpaste, gardening and people stuff.

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  People, Gardening, Stuff

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• Through all the windows I only see infinity.

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  Infinity, Window

  "House of Leaves". Book by Mark Z. Danielewski, March 7, 2000.

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• One forgets that one is one. I must try to remember this.

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  Trying, Remember, Forget

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• I'm not independently wealthy.

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  Wealthy

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• ...and there you have it, another body on the floor surrounded by things that don't mean much to anyone except to the one who can't take any of them along.

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  Mean, Body

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• You got a death wish, Truant?' Which was the thing that scared me. 'Cause maybe I did.

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  Wish, Causes, Scared

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• Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or a watercooler. It can become an intrinsic part of their dialogue.

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  Coffee, People, Literature

  "Mark Z Danielewski wins seven-figure advance for serial novel" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2011.

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• My interest is in how meaning is communicated via language, and I believe the shape, positioning, even the color of the language has an effect on meaning.

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  Believe, Color, Shapes

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• Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding

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  Strong, Understanding, Half

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• At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the newspaper and then suddenly we recall that a friend had a certain comment on that particular story, a certain bit of news that we saw on the television applies to that and we immediately assemble an idea of a story.

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  Ideas, Breakfast, Tables

  "Five minutes with Mark Z Danielewski". Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2000.

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• To read" actually comes from the Latin reri "to calculate, to think" which is not only the progenitor of "read" but of "reason" as well, both of which hail from the Greek arariskein "to fit." Aside from giving us "reason," arariskein also gives us an unlikely sibling, Latin arma meaning "weapons." It seems that "to fit" the world or to make sense of it requires either reason or arms.

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  Sibling, Latin, Thinking

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• Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.

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  Space, Water, Hot

  Twitter post from Dec 16, 2010

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• Maybe you saw her first? Caught a glimpse between the lines, between the letters, like a ghost in the mirror, a ghost in the wings?

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  Mirrors, Wings, Glimpse

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• Sometimes it's just silent...No sound at all. 'Does that scare you?' Chad nods. 'Why?' asks his father. 'It's like something's waiting.

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  Father, Waiting, Scare

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• Beautiful women are always drawn to men they think will keep them beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Men, Thinking

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• I believe the structure of 'House of Leaves' is far more difficult to explain than it is to read. And while I'd like to lay claim to some extraordinary act of originality, truth is I'm only taking advantage of capabilities inherent in everyone.

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  Believe, House, Originality

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• The greatest of love letters are always coded for the one and not the many.

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  Letters, Love Letter

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• I'm all soils west when the Earth lets go. I'm a thousand Julys.

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  Letting Go, Soil, West

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• I could see her get all nervous but she was also excited. Nightmares have that quality, don't they?

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  Quality, Nightmare, Nervous

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• I will walk heavy, and I will walk strange.

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  Strange, Heavy, Walks

  Twitter post from Oct 12, 2017

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