Simon Van Booy Quotes

• Love is also a violence, and cannot be undone.

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• It’s tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love them.

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• The key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth.

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• We cross from memory into imagination with only a vague awareness of change.

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• The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’re not the first to die.

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• The love of a man is like a drop of color into something clear.

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• Every day is a masterpiece, even if it crushes you.

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• There are some lies that, under the right circumstances, are the only truth.

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• Without memory, he thought, man would be invincible.

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• The present grows within the boundaries of the past.

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• The very best and the very worst of life will come from ability to love strangers.

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• Language is like drinking from one’s own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.

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• Whether you know it or not, we leave parts of ourselves wherever we go.

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• Sometimes, language is the sound of longing.

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• Truth is just a lie that everyone believes.

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• Every moment is the paradox of now or never.

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• Love is life but longer.

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• Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land.

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• Hands have their own language.

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• Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same.

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Simon Van Booy (42)

Birth:	1975
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Writer

About

Simon Van Booy is a British writer who lives in the United States. He grew up in rural Wales, but has lived in Kentucky, Paris, Athens, New York City and the Hamptons. Love Begins in Winter won the 2009 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.

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