Jenny Offill Quotes

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• My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. Women almost never become art monsters because art monsters…
• Also she signed away the right to self-destruct years ago. The fine print on the birth certificate, her friends call it.
• For years, I kept a Post-it note above my desk. WORK NOT LOVE! was what it said. It seemed a sturdier kind of happiness.
• Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.
• A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.
• And that phrase - 'sleeping like a baby.' Some blonde said it blithely on the subway the other day. I wanted to lie down next…
• The only love that feels like love is the doomed kind. (Fun fact.)
• You think you want the blue skies, the open road, but really you want the tunnel, you want to know how the story ends.
• The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back…
• A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell my brain? But…
• The reason to have a home is to keep certain people in and everyone else out.
• But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally…
• To live in a city is to be forever flinching,
• One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can…
• My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead,
• These bits of poetry that stick to her like burrs.
• I had thought loving two people so much would straighten it.
• When God is a father, he is said to be elsewhere. When God is a mother, she is said to be everywhere.
• I felt like I could write about quiet, self-contained moments and also about those moments when the world rushes in again.
• What I try to capture as a writer is the feeling of being alive, of being awake.

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