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Alex Garland quotes
Trust me, it’s paradise. This is where the hungry come to feed. For mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven’t tried before. So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what? It’s probably worth it.
— Alex Garland
Maybe to have a memory you need time for reflection, however brief, just to let the memory find a place to settle.
— Alex Garland
Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.
— Alex Garland, The Beach
I don’t like dealing with money transactions in poor countries. I get confused between the feeling that I shouldn’t haggle with poverty and getting ripped off
— Alex Garland, The Beach
I didn’t get the impression that the policeman cared much about the whole thing either. After another thirty minutes of ruthless interrogation (‘Can you ve’fy you eat banan’ pancake?’) he let me go asking me not to leave Khao San within 24 hours
— Alex Garland, The Beach
On that trip I learnt something very important. Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switched off. Broken armrests took precedence over broken hearts. By the time the plane was airborne I’d forgotten England even existed.” (The Beach)
— Alex Garland
As for me…I’m fine. I have bad dreams, but I never saw Mister Duck again. I play video games. I smoke a little dope. I got my thousand-yard stare. I carry a lot of scares.I like the way that sounds.I carry a lot of scares.
— Alex Garland, The Beach
Though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the evilest motherfucker in the valley
— Alex Garland
An hour later we were walking past rows of busy beach huts and weaving between sunbathers and Frisbee games. I was surprised that people weren’t taking more notice of us. Everyone looked so strange to me that I couldn’t believe I didn’t look equally strange to them.
— Alex Garland, The Beach
You never listen to me anymore. Before, if I was talking to you, you would always listen. But now you have no time to even talk to me.’Yeah… Has Keaty told you not to eat the Stew?”Richard!’I frowned ‘What?”You are not listening to me!”… Oh. Well I’m sorry. I’ve got a lot on my mind.”Not me.”Huh?”I am not on your mind.”Uh… of course you are.”I am not’ she poked me in the ribs. ‘I think you do not love me anymore.’I looked at her in astonishment ‘… Are you serious?”Very serious’ she said petulantly’But… I mean… do we have to talk about this right now?”Yes. It must be now. Etienne is not here, and maybe soon I will never see you agai…”Francoise!’ I hissed. ‘Keep it down!”Maybe I should keep it down but maybe I should not. In the dope field, when I would not be quiet, you pushed me to the ground and held me tightly’. She giggled. ‘It was very exciting’.
— Alex Garland, The Beach
Moshe was an Israeli with an ear-slitting laugh. He used it in the same way as a madman uses a gun, spraying it around with bewildering randomness.
— Alex Garland, The Beach
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