Sarah Manguso Quotes
- You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness…
- If you think something's happened quickly, you're looking at only a part of it.
- Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a…
- My existence shrank from an arrow of light pointing into the future forever to a speck of light that was the present moment. I got…
- Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of self.
- The catalog of emotion that disappears when someone dies, and the degree to which we rely on a few people to record something of what…
- I like people who possess either deep mastery or deep empathy, but not as much as I like those who possess both.
- Around you move many seas. It is impossible not to drown a little.
- This is suffering's lesson: pay attention. The important part might come in a form you do not recognize.
- Look at me, dancing my little dance for a few moments against the background of eternity.