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> [“But at the same time, Sandro understood that people only tended to allow their own contradictions, and not those of others. It was okay to be murky to yourself, to know you weren’t an angel, but other people had to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-kushner/but-at-the-same-time-sandro-understood-that-people-only-tended-to/)

[Rachel Kushner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-kushner/)

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## More by Rachel Kushner

> [Leave, with no answer. Move on to the next question.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-kushner/leave-with-no-answer-move-on-to-the-next-question/)

[Rachel Kushner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-kushner/)

> [Motorcycles aren't about gaining agency, I don't think.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-kushner/motorcycles-aren-t-about-gaining-agency-i-don-t-think/)

[Rachel Kushner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-kushner/)

> [“Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-kushner/gloria-was-still-talking-something-about-how-shooting-people-was-in-a/)

[Rachel Kushner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-kushner/)

> [“Because I didn't move here to fall in love. The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it's worthy of respect.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-kushner/because-i-didn-t-move-here-to-fall-in-love-the-desire-for-love-is/)

[Rachel Kushner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-kushner/)

> [Authenticity is too big a subject to just toss in with the question about the photographs!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-kushner/authenticity-is-too-big-a-subject-to-just-toss-in-with-the-question/)

[Rachel Kushner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-kushner/)

> [“We were in separate realities, fast and slow. There is no fixed reality, only objects in contrast.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-kushner/we-were-in-separate-realities-fast-and-slow-there-is-no-fixed-reality/)

[Rachel Kushner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-kushner/)

> [It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-kushner/it-s-really-a-misconception-to-identify-the-writer-with-the-main/)

[Rachel Kushner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-kushner/)

> [People are complicated. Personally I don't go in for puritanical people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-kushner/people-are-complicated-personally-i-don-t-go-in-for-puritanical-people/)

[Rachel Kushner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-kushner/)

> [I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-kushner/i-am-a-rereader-quality-is-variety-if-you-wait-long-enough-barthes/)

[Rachel Kushner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-kushner/)

> [“But I had seen, the night I met her, that her beauty was going to leave her like it does all women. For the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-kushner/but-i-had-seen-the-night-i-met-her-that-her-beauty-was-going-to-leave/)

[Rachel Kushner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-kushner/)

> [When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-kushner/when-i-see-things-in-the-world-that-leap-out-at-me-i-want-to-make-use/)

[Rachel Kushner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-kushner/)

> [While it might be true that our reality would suggest that more writers would address these elemental issues of modern life - work, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-kushner/while-it-might-be-true-that-our-reality-would-suggest-that-more/)

[Rachel Kushner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-kushner/)

> [And here I arrive at my point. The point is that everyone has a different dream. The point is that it is a grave…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-kushner/and-here-i-arrive-at-my-point-the-point-is-that-everyone-has-a/)

[Rachel Kushner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-kushner/)

> [I guess I still feel that way and yet I'm slightly hesitant to insist on that idea, that it "better be fun for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-kushner/i-guess-i-still-feel-that-way-and-yet-i-m-slightly-hesitant-to-insist/)

[Rachel Kushner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-kushner/)

> [A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-kushner/a-lot-of-politics-in-art-is-just-institutional-critique-which-in-my/)

[Rachel Kushner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-kushner/)

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