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Claire Messud has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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We live in a culture that wants to put a redemptive face on everything, so anger doesn't sit well with any of…
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As my wise friend Didi has more than once observed about life's passages, every departure entails an arrival elsewhere, every arrival implies…
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Just because something is invisible doesn't mean it isn't there. At any given time, there are a host of invisibles floating among…
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Life's funny. You have to find a way to keep going, to keep laughing, even after you realize that none of your…
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And then, into the fantasy, as into a dream, would come the thought: it's not like this anymore; the world has changed.…
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It doesn't ever occur to you, as you fashion your mask so carefully, that it will grow into your skin and graft…
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Maybe that, really, is as good a definition as any of an artist in the world: a ruthless person.
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Anyway, these books I love, they’re all books by men—every last one of them. Because if it’s unseemly and possibly dangerous for…
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If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble.
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We read to find life, in all its possibilities.
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To my mind, Guernica is the most important online intellectual and literary journal in America today.
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I measure my life out in books." "You should be measuring your life by living. Correction: you shouldn't be measuring your life.…
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I think sometimes people really require the satisfaction of closure.
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What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that…
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That is why one day I said my game will be like the Pythagorean Theorem - hard to figure out. A lot…
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