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> [“The body, I have often thought, is like a promise. You keep things in it. Those things are covert, immediate, yours. There is something lustrous about them. They emit energy, like radium or appliances. They can be replaced, repaired or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bradfield/the-body-i-have-often-thought-is-like-a-promise-you-keep-things-in-it/)

[Scott Bradfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bradfield/)

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## More by Scott Bradfield

> [“I try to tell the teacher, you know. I don't give a fuck about geometry or English. Like I'm probably going to drive a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bradfield/i-try-to-tell-the-teacher-you-know-i-don-t-give-a-fuck-about-geometry/)

[Scott Bradfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bradfield/)

> [I am not especially good at remembering the actualities of the world I inhabit, but I have pretty strong associative memories of how it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bradfield/i-am-not-especially-good-at-remembering-the-actualities-of-the-world/)

[Scott Bradfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bradfield/)

> [We all make terrible mistakes in our lives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bradfield/we-all-make-terrible-mistakes-in-our-lives/)

[Scott Bradfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bradfield/)

> [“The body, I have often thought, is like a promise. You keep things in it. Those things are covert, immediate, yours. There is something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bradfield/the-body-i-have-often-thought-is-like-a-promise-you-keep-things-in-it/)

[Scott Bradfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bradfield/)

> [“I descended to the ocean floor and encountered bloated, symmetrical creatures with pumping white hearts and translucent skin. Collapsed blue civilizations lived down there,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bradfield/i-descended-to-the-ocean-floor-and-encountered-bloated-symmetrical/)

[Scott Bradfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bradfield/)

> [I've published several virtually invisible novels and several dozen even more invisible short stories over the years, all of which give me joy -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bradfield/i-ve-published-several-virtually-invisible-novels-and-several-dozen/)

[Scott Bradfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bradfield/)

> [For years (decades even), I genuinely believed that world would beat a path to my books and stories, but eventually, as everything I wrote…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bradfield/for-years-decades-even-i-genuinely-believed-that-world-would-beat-a/)

[Scott Bradfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bradfield/)

> [“We all like to think we'll grow up,' Beatrice said. 'History's the one dream we all try and dream together.' I don't want to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bradfield/we-all-like-to-think-we-ll-grow-up-beatrice-said-history-s-the-one/)

[Scott Bradfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bradfield/)

> [“Ghosts often exist even in the bodies of people we love.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bradfield/ghosts-often-exist-even-in-the-bodies-of-people-we-love/)

[Scott Bradfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bradfield/)

> [“take words and make them useful,' she told me. 'drain them of all the crappy meanings they used to mean and make them mean…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bradfield/take-words-and-make-them-useful-she-told-me-drain-them-of-all-the/)

[Scott Bradfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bradfield/)

> [Every time I start off a book or a story I feel like I'm developing a new style or approach for that individual story…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bradfield/every-time-i-start-off-a-book-or-a-story-i-feel-like-i-m-developing-a/)

[Scott Bradfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bradfield/)

> [“Life is a sweet mistake that happened when the world wasn't looking.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bradfield/life-is-a-sweet-mistake-that-happened-when-the-world-wasn-t-looking/)

[Scott Bradfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bradfield/)

> [“...we're what you call heterogenous. That means we're everywhere, everybody at once. We're both good and bad, right and wrong. We're the great resolvers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bradfield/we-re-what-you-call-heterogenous-that-means-we-re-everywhere/)

[Scott Bradfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bradfield/)

> [I enjoy entering the viewpoint of characters who are as different from myself as I can get - children, elderly women, animals, a sexy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bradfield/i-enjoy-entering-the-viewpoint-of-characters-who-are-as-different/)

[Scott Bradfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bradfield/)

> [I can’t think of a more philosophical time in a person’s life than when they are children. It’s the one time when ideas are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bradfield/i-can-t-think-of-a-more-philosophical-time-in-a-person-s-life-than/)

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