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I like things that are funny and have a lot else in them besides that - ideas, for example.

~Geoff Dyer

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For me, a great joke is an idea expressed in extremely concentrated form.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Concentrated Expressed Extremely Form Great Idea Joke Me

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Practically everyone I know now is from a middle- or upper-middle-class background, and I no longer have the huge chip on my shoulder that I carried around for so many years. I'm not sure it comes out much in the work, but coming from this kind of background is absolutely central to my identity, to my sense of who I am.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Absolutely Am Around Background Carried Central Chip Coming Everyone Huge Identity Kind Know Longer Many Middle Much Now Out Practically Sense Shoulder So Many Years Sure Who Work Years I Am

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Despite what Wordsworth says about thoughts that 'lie too deep for tears', I think tears are a pretty reliable indication of being in the grips of a profound experience.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: About Being Deep Despite Experience Grips Indication Lie Pretty Profound Reliable Says Tears Think Thoughts Too I Think

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I really have to give the Navy all the credit it deserves. They were so flexible and accommodating, given that everybody on board had better things to worry about than this person coming on board who's just going to be in the way, really.

~Geoff Dyer

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Once you've got through immigration, one is always made to feel very welcome in America, once they've let you in. It's a great place to be.

~Geoff Dyer

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Writers are not obliged to deal with current events, but it happens that the big story of our times - the al-Qaida attacks on New York and the Pentagon, and the subsequent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - is being told in some of the greatest books of our time.

~Geoff Dyer

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There is a thematic continuity here within Bigelow's work: 'The Hurt Locker' serves up a military equivalent of the thrill-trips that Lenny Nero was hustling in her earlier 'Strange Days.'

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Continuity Days Earlier Equivalent Her Here Hurt Hustling Lenny Locker Military Serve Strange Up Within Work

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The series 'Generation Kill' is, along with everything else, a sustained critique of the structural and conventional fictions of 'The Hurt Locker.'

~Geoff Dyer

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We are moving beyond the non-fiction novel to different kinds of narrative art, different forms of cognition. Loaded with moral and political point, narrative has been recalibrated to record, honour, and protest the latest historically specific instance of futility and mess.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Art Been Beyond Different Different Kinds Forms Futility Historically Honour Instance Kinds Latest Loaded Mess Moral Moving Narrative Non-Fiction Novel Point Political Protest Record Specific

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: June 5th, 1958

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