Geoff Dyer Quotes (18 quotes) | Quotes of famous people

Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It (1993)
Context: Dave was committed to making it a truly memorable weekend in the sense that he would remember nothing whatsoever about it. “It’s all about moderation,” he said, “Everything in moderation. Even moderation itself. From this it follows that you must from time to time, have excess. And this is going to be one of those occasions.” (p. 152).

Sense

“I felt I could no longer take the roller-coaster of emotions of travel, its surges of exaltation, its troughs of despondency, it’s large stretches of boredom and inconvenience”

Geoff Dyer

Source: Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It (1993), p. 202

Travel

“When you are lonely, writing can keep you company. It is a form of self-compensation, a way of making up for things—as opposed to making things up—that did not quite happen. (p.11).”

Geoff Dyer

Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It (1993)

“Ruins—antique ruins at least—are what is left when history has moved on.”

Geoff Dyer

Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It (1993)
Context: Ruins—antique ruins at least—are what is left when history has moved on. They are no longer at the mercy of history, only of time. (p. 207).

History

“This book is a ripped, by no mean reliable map of some of the landscapes that make up a particular phase of my life. It’s about places where things happened or didn’t happen, places where I stayed and things that have stayed with me, places I’d wanted to see or places I passed through or just ended up.”

Geoff Dyer

Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It (1993)
Context: This book is a ripped, by no mean reliable map of some of the landscapes that make up a particular phase of my life. It’s about places where things happened or didn’t happen, places where I stayed and things that have stayed with me, places I’d wanted to see or places I passed through or just ended up. In a way they’re all the same place—the same landscape—because the person these things happened to was the same person who in turn is the sum of all things that happened or didn’t happen in these and other places. Everything in this book really happened, but some of the things that happened only happened in my head; by that same token, all the things that didn’t happen didn’t happen there too. (p. 1).

Life , Books

“Virility of one kind or another is so important if you are to feel like a man. You have to be able to perform stunts. You have to be able to show off in front of your woman, do things she urges you not to do because they look dangerous.”

Geoff Dyer

Source: Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It (1993), p. 64

Feeling

“The idea is to generate paperwork. The word could hardly be more apt. Paper is work. Paper is the big employer. Someone fills out a form (in triplicate), someone files one copy, the other copy goes somewhere else to be filed by someone else, the third is retained by the customer for his records. The most insignificant transaction must be scrupulously recorded and logged, filed and stored, even, on occasion, retrieved. On a trip to Libya, p. 183.”

Geoff Dyer

Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It (1993)

Idea

“The best way to learn was by looking, to become articulate in the language of sight. The eye could learn to look after itself.”

Geoff Dyer

Source: Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It (1993), p. 180