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> [“I had never wanted permanence before, not really, or I had wanted my freedom more; I had accepted that passionate feeling faded, all my earlier experience had confirmed it, when love that seemed certain simply dissolved, on one side or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garth-greenwell/i-had-never-wanted-permanence-before-not-really-or-i-had-wanted-my/)

[Garth Greenwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/garth-greenwell/)

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## More by Garth Greenwell

> [I'm not sure I can articulate any principles behind the decisions about what to cut and what to keep.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garth-greenwell/i-m-not-sure-i-can-articulate-any-principles-behind-the-decisions/)

[Garth Greenwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/garth-greenwell/)

> [I do think that calling a book nonfiction affirms a kind of responsibility to an attempt at truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garth-greenwell/i-do-think-that-calling-a-book-nonfiction-affirms-a-kind-of/)

[Garth Greenwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/garth-greenwell/)

> [ “\[L\]ike poems, cruising carves privacy out of public spaces. Poems are a kind of private communication that occurs in public speech. And I think… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garth-greenwell/l-ike-poems-cruising-carves-privacy-out-of-public-spaces-poems-are-a/)

[Garth Greenwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/garth-greenwell/)

> [The academy is an incredibly sheltered world, and I do think it's important for writers to get out from under that shelter, at least…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garth-greenwell/the-academy-is-an-incredibly-sheltered-world-and-i-do-think-it-s/)

[Garth Greenwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/garth-greenwell/)

> [I guess I think that sex and desire and humiliation are central to my experience of consciousness - to my experience of humanness -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garth-greenwell/i-guess-i-think-that-sex-and-desire-and-humiliation-are-central-to-my/)

[Garth Greenwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/garth-greenwell/)

> [I don't think I'm qualified to answer questions about happiness. But I guess I'd say that I don't think you ever get to put…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garth-greenwell/i-don-t-think-i-m-qualified-to-answer-questions-about-happiness-but-i/)

[Garth Greenwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/garth-greenwell/)

> [Even though I don't sing any more, singing was my first education in the arts, and it's clear to me that my training as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garth-greenwell/even-though-i-don-t-sing-any-more-singing-was-my-first-education-in/)

[Garth Greenwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/garth-greenwell/)

> [Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garth-greenwell/woolf-is-an-important-writer-for-me-someone-i-read-often-and-who/)

[Garth Greenwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/garth-greenwell/)

> [I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only a manufactured…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garth-greenwell/i-take-pleasure-as-a-reader-in-books-that-tease-with-a-kind-of/)

[Garth Greenwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/garth-greenwell/)

> [It does seem like between the groundbreaking writing of Edmund White's generation and the work of younger gay writers in their twenties and thirties…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garth-greenwell/it-does-seem-like-between-the-groundbreaking-writing-of-edmund-white/)

[Garth Greenwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/garth-greenwell/)

> [I realized, that the life of a musician, even of a very lucky, very successful musician, wasn't really the life I wanted: I hate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garth-greenwell/i-realized-that-the-life-of-a-musician-even-of-a-very-lucky-very/)

[Garth Greenwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/garth-greenwell/)

> [I went back to graduate school because I wanted to avoid being a professional, to try to piece together a life that would let…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garth-greenwell/i-went-back-to-graduate-school-because-i-wanted-to-avoid-being-a/)

[Garth Greenwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/garth-greenwell/)

> [My life has had a lot of fits and starts: before I studied literature at all I was a musician, and began undergrad as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garth-greenwell/my-life-has-had-a-lot-of-fits-and-starts-before-i-studied-literature/)

[Garth Greenwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/garth-greenwell/)

> [“I had never wanted permanence before, not really, or I had wanted my freedom more; I had accepted that passionate feeling faded, all my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garth-greenwell/i-had-never-wanted-permanence-before-not-really-or-i-had-wanted-my/)

[Garth Greenwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/garth-greenwell/)

> [The fact remains that books that really put gay people in the center, and especially books that do so in a way that is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garth-greenwell/the-fact-remains-that-books-that-really-put-gay-people-in-the-center/)

[Garth Greenwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/garth-greenwell/)

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