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> [“The only thing your life teaches you is how to live your life. And that’s only if you’re very lucky. And you listen very hard.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-slouka/the-only-thing-your-life-teaches-you-is-how-to-live-your-life-and/)

[Mark Slouka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-slouka/)

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## More by Mark Slouka

> [“My mother knew a man during the war. Theirs was a love story, and like any good love story, it left blood on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-slouka/my-mother-knew-a-man-during-the-war-theirs-was-a-love-story-and-like/)

[Mark Slouka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-slouka/)

> [I distrust the perpetually busy; always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-slouka/i-distrust-the-perpetually-busy-always-have-the-frenetic-ones/)

[Mark Slouka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-slouka/)

> [“There are times in every life when the past acquires a particular resonance, when we grow sensitive to sounds and voices normally beyond the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-slouka/there-are-times-in-every-life-when-the-past-acquires-a-particular/)

[Mark Slouka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-slouka/)

> [Most of the time when something goes bad—a marriage, a war, a run of good luck—you don’t know it. It’s like in the cartoons,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-slouka/most-of-the-time-when-something-goes-bad-a-marriage-a-war-a-run-of/)

[Mark Slouka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-slouka/)

> [“Generally speaking, writers who have been at it for a while, and who are any good at it, suffer from an acute kind of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-slouka/generally-speaking-writers-who-have-been-at-it-for-a-while-and-who/)

[Mark Slouka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-slouka/)

> [“Acceptance was not in my nature. Even as a young man it seemed to me that everywhere the world conspired against the heart, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-slouka/acceptance-was-not-in-my-nature-even-as-a-young-man-it-seemed-to-me/)

[Mark Slouka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-slouka/)

> [“Such is the privilege of survival: to be allowed to fashion the means that fit our ends, to cobble together a narrative that reveals…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-slouka/such-is-the-privilege-of-survival-to-be-allowed-to-fashion-the-means/)

[Mark Slouka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-slouka/)

> [“Literature is literature. Its purpose is to challenge and disorient us, to break us down a little bit so that we are forced to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-slouka/literature-is-literature-its-purpose-is-to-challenge-and-disorient-us/)

[Mark Slouka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-slouka/)

> [“The only thing your life teaches you is how to live your life. And that’s only if you’re very lucky. And you listen very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-slouka/the-only-thing-your-life-teaches-you-is-how-to-live-your-life-and/)

[Mark Slouka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-slouka/)

> [“And yet, far off, I can hear something whispering that this compulsion to do, to intrude ourselves, to improve on what is--even when wholly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-slouka/and-yet-far-off-i-can-hear-something-whispering-that-this-compulsion/)

[Mark Slouka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-slouka/)

> [“I lost my father this past year, and the word feels right because I keep looking for him. As if he were misplaced. As…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-slouka/i-lost-my-father-this-past-year-and-the-word-feels-right-because-i/)

[Mark Slouka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-slouka/)

> [Life isn't simple. Literature shouldn't be either.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-slouka/life-isn-t-simple-literature-shouldn-t-be-either/)

[Mark Slouka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-slouka/)

> [The 'deep' civic function of the humanities . . . is something understood very well by totalitarian societies, which tend to keep close tabs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-slouka/the-deep-civic-function-of-the-humanities-is-something-understood/)

[Mark Slouka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-slouka/)

> [Maybe I lacked coping skills. Maybe I was weak. I cared for people for no better reason than they seemed to care for me,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-slouka/maybe-i-lacked-coping-skills-maybe-i-was-weak-i-cared-for-people-for/)

[Mark Slouka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-slouka/)

> [Consider it: Who but God could have dreamed a tale so absurd and so heartless?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-slouka/consider-it-who-but-god-could-have-dreamed-a-tale-so-absurd-and-so/)

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