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I'm never happier when writing than when I see gags taking shape - ideally, gags at my own expense. What I like is the shuttling back and forth, serious into comedy and vice-versa, ideally, both in the same sentence, or even simultaneously. The best jokes are always ideas in miniature.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Always Back Best Both Comedy Even Expense Forth Happier Ideally Ideas Jokes Like Miniature My Own Never Own Same See Sentence Serious Shape Simultaneously Taking Than Writing I See

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While writing, I'm always so happy in the middle of a book or finishing a book and really hate starting them, so I often think, 'I wish I had a really big book to write to which I could devote seven years of my life.'

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Always Big Book Could Devote Finishing Had Happy Hate Life Middle My Life Often Really Seven Starting Them Think Which While Wish Write Writing Years I Wish

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Earnest people are always a bit on the thick side in my experience.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Always Bit Earnest Experience People Side Thick

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Writing, for me, has always been a way of not having a career.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Always Been Career Having Me Way Writing

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It's funny, because people always say when they meet me, having read me - or they read me, having met me - that they are struck by how the tone is pretty similar, in real life and in the books.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Always Because Books Funny Having How Life Me Meet Met People Pretty Read Real Real Life Say Similar Struck Tone

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I've always had this belief that you want to write about universal truths.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: About Always Belief Had Truths Universal Want Write You

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In terms of behaving in a civic way, I feel my behavior is always exemplary.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Always Behaving Behavior Civic Exemplary Feel Terms Way I Feel

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Physical violence is always a bore in films today. We don't see how much it hurts. We don't learn the true consequences of it.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Always Bore Consequences Films How How Much Hurts Learn Much Physical See Today True Violence

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Borrowing something from one art form and relocating it in another always has a whiff of pretension about it, like in books if, instead of 'Chapter One,' you have 'First Movement.'

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: About Always Another Art Art Form Books Borrowing Chapter First Form Instead Like Movement Pretension Something You

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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

Topics: Always America Feel Got Great Great Place Immigration Made Once Place Through Very Welcome You

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