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I remember being interviewed about my first novel, 'The Colour of Memory.' They kept using the expression 'your first novel,' and I said, 'No, I object to that phrase, because this is it for me.'

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: About Because Being Colour Expression First Kept Me Memory Novel Object Phrase Remember Said Using Your I Remember

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I first got a sense of that idea of nodality - but I didn't use the word back then - with 'The Missing of the Somme': that sense of a particular place in a landscape or on a map having some kind of tremendous power to draw us to itself... that made me conscious, and since then, really, it has been an abiding concern of mine.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Abide Back Been Concern Conscious Draw First Got Having Idea Itself Kind Landscape Made Map Me Mine Missing Particular Place Power Really Sense Since Some Then Tremendous Us Use Word

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We have in our heads a pretty well-defined narrative of the First World War, and there are certain events that are obviously key.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Certain Events First First World First World War Heads Key Narrative Obviously Our Pretty War World World War

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First, unreliability is not the sole preserve of fictional narrators. Second, the pleasure of patting oneself on the back for seizing on instances of unreliability and ignorance is, as the late Frank Kermode may or may not have pointed out, considerable.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Back Considerable Fictional First Frank Ignorance Late May Oneself Out Pleasure Pointed Preserve Second Seizing Sole

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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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I don't know who made the first Aquaman joke. I'm sure it was comics readers; maybe we all did. But it's the idea that the perpetuated story of Aquaman is that he only has powers in water, and he talks to fish. I think it's the idea of him in the middle of a city just doesn't make a lot of sense to people. It's just the character itself.

~Geoff Johns

Topics: Character City Comics Did First Fish He Him Idea Itself Joke Just Know Lot Made Make Maybe Middle Only People Powers Readers Sense Story Sure Talks Think Water Who I Think

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You don't want to jump in on your first day on a show and start improv-ing and changing the show.

~Geoff Stults

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When I first found out that Superman wasn't real, I was about maybe eight. And I was talking to my mother about it. And she was like, 'No, no, no. There's no Superman.' And I started crying. I really thought he was coming to rescue us. The chaos, the violence, the danger. No hero was coming.

~Geoffrey Canada

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First he wrought, and afterward he taught.

~Geoffrey Chaucer

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Irony is going to be hard to get. You have to be master of the literal first. But then, Americans don't get irony either. Computers are going to reach the level of Americans before Brits.

~Geoffrey Hinton

Topics: American Before Brits Computers Either First Get Going Hard Irony Level Literal Master Reach Then You

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