Politics Quotes by Lynne Tillman

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I write about what I'm thinking about. I write about what is bothering me or what is a political, aesthetic, or ethical issue or something, and then I figure out how to do it. I don't write essays that kind…

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I think political situations usually work their way into my writing, but not necessarily in an explicit way. The environment is so chaotic now. There is someone so entirely unreliable in charge, and reliable only in the fact that Thing…

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There may be an art to conversation, and some are better at it than others, but conversation's virtue lies in randomness and possibility: people, without a plan, could speak a spontaneous, unexpected truth, because revelation rules. Telling words recur in this smart, generous conversation between Stephen Andrews and Gregg Bordowitz: patience, responsibility, feminism, ethics, cosmology, AIDS, gift, freedom, mortality.

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I'd studied English literature and American history, but the English literature, which I thought was going to be helpful to me in an immediate…

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I subject my sentences and the words to a kind of Grand Inquisition.

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Laughing and crying are very similar. Sometimes people go from laughing to crying, or crying to laughing. I remember being at someone's wedding and…

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[Reality] isn't simply the so-called world that you're in. Your reality is a much larger one that takes in all matter of identification and…

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I write about what I'm thinking about. I write about what is bothering me or what is a political, aesthetic, or ethical issue or…

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My friends and I sometimes laugh at each other that there is so much maintenance of a body. I paid no attention when I…

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I'm interested in reality but I'm not interested in realism at all.

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In a practical sense, pain kept me from sitting down as much, so that sometimes I would have to stand to write. Not that…

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I'm bothered, as a reader, when I feel the writer is filling in too much. Again, whether it's nonfiction or fiction, I think writers…

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It wasn't that I wanted to be an artist. But when I took my first drawing class with the painter Doug Ohlson, I could…

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I'm interested in reality but I'm not interested in realism at all. I'm interested in the ways that I think people want to relate.

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