"When I started writing at 18 or 19,……" — Ben Marcus
"When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level."
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33 Quotes by Ben Marcus
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- A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.
- Without sound, celebration and grief look nearly the same.
- People are considered as areas that resist light, mistakes in the air, collision sweet spots. At the time of this…
- To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no…
- Slamming the book shut produces a wind on the face, a weather that is copyrighted by the author, and this…
- Eventually you stop paying attention to your own feelings when there's nothing to be done about them.
- Rain is used as white noise when God is disgusted by too much prayer, when the sky is stuffed to…
- RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full…
- Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.
- Sorry, I said to myself, wondering how many times in my marriage I'd said that, how many times I'd meant…
- Being with him was like being alone underwater - everything was slow; nothing counted; I could not be harmed; I…
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