Top 25 Quotes by Peter Cameron of 34 - Page 2

I don't think I could ever work in such a blatantly hierarchical corporate setting. I know that everyone in this world is not equal, but I can't bear environments that make this truth so obvious.

I don't think I could ever work in such a blatantly hierarchical corporate setting. I know that everyone in this world is not equal, but I can't bear environments that make this truth so obvious.

Peter Cameron

Thinking, World, Bears

Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.21, Macmillan

I often feel like I want to think something but I can't find the language that coincides with the thoughts, so it remains felt, not thought. Sometimes I feel like I'm thinking in Swedish without knowing Swedish.

Peter Cameron

Thinking, Knowing, Want

Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.116, Macmillan

New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but it’s not, it’s like everyone is just pretending, as if everyone has been cast as the star in a movie about their life, so they’re one step removed from it. And then in September it all gets normal again.

Peter Cameron

Summer, New York, Stars

Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.121, Macmillan

I thought the best thing to do would be nothing, and in that way things couldn’t get any worse.

Peter Cameron

Would Be, Way, Things To Do

Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.102, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Dr. Adler had instructed me to always say whatever I was thinking, but this was difficult for me, for the act of thinking and the act of articulating those thoughts were not synchronous to me, or even necessarily consecutive. I knew that I thought and spoke in the same language and that theoretically there should be no reason why I could not express my thoughts as they occurred or soon thereafter, but the language in which I thought and the language in which I spoke, though both English, often seemed divided by a gap that could not be simultaneously, or even retrospectively, bridged.

Peter Cameron

Thinking, Drs, Gaps

Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.64, Macmillan

I felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be charming (or merely verbal) incapacitates me.

Peter Cameron

Awful, Pressure, Charming

Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.70, Macmillan

She had all the best things wrong with her—incest, insanity, drug addiction, bulimia, alopecia: you name it. All the perfect stuff for a memoir. She’s so lucky.

Peter Cameron

Names, Perfect, Addiction

Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.149, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)