Susan Minot Quotes

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• When a person you love moves by you with flat eyes that will not see you, it is a shock to believe it.
• The word dysfunction has, I think, served its purpose and now has lost its meaning. Every family, like every person, is imperfect, after all. The…
• After the briskness of loving, loving stops. And you roll over with death stretched out alongside you like a feather boa, or a snake, light…
• [The director's idea for the film was:] A young American or English girl goes to Tuscany to visit English expatriates. She is on a mission…
• Boy poison - a boy's kisses were like a poison, which infected you and after you were exposed you craved more, like an addict.
• I would have fallen in love with you anywhere.
• There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait.
• After she was gone there would be no one who knew the whole of her life. She did not even know the whole of it!…
• ...[She] felt as if she were both a stranger to herself and more herself than she'd ever been.
• ...it occurred to her how some people continued through no design of one's own to be in one's life while others might initially enter in…
• Hope is a terrible thing, she said. Is it? Yes, it keep you living in another place, a place which doesn't exist. For some people…
• Did people ever stop changing? They surprised you with fresh pain. Sometimes they surprised you with happiness, but the pain was the sharper surprise. There…
• She thought of how much people changed you. It was the opposite of what you always heard, that no one could change a person. It…
• Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams.
• There are aspects of love that I once undervalued. Kindness. Having a sort of honor when love is on the table.
• When I was in my teens and twenties, I could see friends expressing how radical they were, and I envied them, the way they lived,…
• Preserving that privacy between a writer and the work is important. You have to shut out all those voices that have reacted to your work.
• Most fiction comes from your experience.
• Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly it is a way to register at least some…
• Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to look a little harder and a little…

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