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1. "Once, somebody asked Robert Schumann to explain the meaning of a certain piece of music he had just played on the piano. What Robert Schumann did was sit back down at the piano and play the piece of music again." ~ David Markson
2. "How frequently was Anon. a woman?" ~ David Markson
3. "Have I ever said that Turner once actually had himself lashed to the mast of a ship, to be able to later do a painting of a storm? Which has never failed to remind me of the scene in which Odysseus does the identical thing, of course, so that he can listen to the Sirens singing but will stay put." ~ David Markson
4. "The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me." ~ David Markson
5. "Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?" ~ David Markson
6. "A simple creature unlettyrde. Julian of Norwich called herself. The most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress. Echoed Jane Austen—four hundred years afterward." ~ David Markson
7. "Once, Turner had himself lashed to the mast of a ship for several hours, during a furious storm, so that he could later paint the storm. Obviously, it was not the storm itself that Turner intended to paint. What he intended to paint was a representation of the storm. One's language is frequently imprecise in that manner, I have discovered." ~ David Markson
8. "You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer that there is no better way of being sane and free from anxiety than by being mad." ~ David Markson
9. "The morning's recollection of the emptiness of the day before. Its anticipation of the emptiness of the day to come." ~ David Markson
10. "Doubtless these are inconsequential perplexities. Still, inconsequential perplexities have now and again been known to become the fundamental mood of existence, one suspects." ~ David Markson
11. "Once, I had a dream of fame. Generally, even then, I was lonely." ~ David Markson
12. "He had a face roughly the shape and color of a clumsily peeled Idaho potato, and he had a jaw like the end of a cigarette carton." ~ David Markson
13. "Tolstoy's wife copied out the entire manuscript of War and Peace in longhand seven times." ~ David Markson
14. "Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at twenty-three—and managed to have no sexual encounter whatsoever?" ~ David Markson
15. "In fact one frequently seemed to gather all sorts of similar information about subjects one had less than profound interest in." ~ David Markson
16. "Can Protagonist think of a single film that interests him as much as the three-hundredth best book he ever read?" ~ David Markson
17. "Or was it possibly...nothing more than a read?" ~ David Markson
18. "How miraculous it was, noted Diogenes, that whenever one felt that sort of urge, one could readily masturbate. But conversely how disheartening that one could not simply rub one's stomach when hungry." ~ David Markson
19. "Tennessee Williams choked to death on the plastic cap of a nasal spray." ~ David Markson
20. "Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruce—to which in fact he was once taken. Trying to imagine the same for a time-transported Nathaniel Hawthorne—who during his first visit to Europe was even shocked by the profusion of naked statues." ~ David Markson
21. "One never does solve what it is about watching fires, really." ~ David Markson
22. "I also believe I met William Gaddis once. He did not look Italian." ~ David Markson
23. "I like Mr. Dickens' books much better than yours, Papa. Said one of Thackeray's daughters." ~ David Markson

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