Rachel Kushner Quotes

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• I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us.
• The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it’s worthy of respect. It’s not admirable to want love, it just is.
• It was not the case that one thing morphed into another, child into woman. You remained the person you were before things happened to you.…
• You have time. Meaning don't use it, but pass through time in patience, waiting for something to come. Prepare for its arrival. Don't rush to…
• People who are harder to love pose a challenge, and the challenge makes them easier to love. You're driven to love them. People who want…
• I’d been listening to men talk since I arrived in New York City. That’s what men like to do. Talk. Profess like experts. When one…
• And here I arrive at my point. The point is that everyone has a different dream. The point is that it is a grave mistake…
• A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious.
• Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into…
• Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to…
• At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I’m a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body…
• To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.
• I do not enjoy the promotional side of being a writer, to be blunt about it. Even with the little amount that is expected of…
• Leave, with no answer. Move on to the next question.
• Lovers offered only what they offered and nothing more, and what they offered came with provisos: believe what you want and don't look carefully at…
• Every person has a range. In fiction, you get to be it all. I'm as much the men in my book as I am the…
• In writing novels, you have to believe in yourself or there would be no way to sustain it. But you also have to give good…
• A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
• Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
• I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.

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