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I feel that form determines how readers read a book and how they judge it.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Book Determines Feel Form How Judge Read Readers I Feel

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It would be nice to turn off that incessant churning of consciousness.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Be Nice Consciousness Incessant Nice Off Turn Would

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I think I can recognize when a piece is at a state of completion.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Completion Piece Recognize State Think I Think I Can

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There's one profound difference between secular and religious pilgrimages. It's inconceivable that a Muslim would feel a sense of anticlimax when reaching Mecca. But for a secular pilgrim, the potential for disappointment is always there.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Always Between Difference Disappointment Feel Inconceivable Mecca Muslim Pilgrim Potential Profound Reaching Religious Secular Sense Would

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In history books, or the one about the guy who cut his hand off to get out of a canyon in Utah, you really want them to be accurate. But my stuff is such small beer by comparison.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: About Accurate Beer Books Canyon Comparison Cut Get Guy Hand His History History Books Off Out Really Small Stuff Them Utah Want Who You

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It really doesn't matter if it happened exactly how I say it happened.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Exactly Happened How Matter Really Say

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I didn't get on a plane until I was 23, after I left Oxford and was teaching at Lucy Clayton Secretarial College in London.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: After College Get Left London Lucy Oxford Plane Teaching Until

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The lesson of travel seems to be so banal, but so great, which is that people are just so amazingly decent the world over. Given the disparity of income and wealth, it's amazing not just that you don't get robbed everywhere - it's amazing you don't get eaten.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Amazing Amazingly Banal Decent Disparity Eaten Everywhere Get Given Great Income Just Lesson Over People Robbed Seems Travel Wealth Which World You

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People never read my books for the quality of the documentary value.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Books Documentary Never People Quality Read Value

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I could never write a book where the point-of-view character was a short person, because I just can't imagine what that's like.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Because Book Character Could Imagine Just Like Never Person Short Where Write

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: June 5th, 1958

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