"It doesn't ever occur to you, as you……" — Claire Messud
"It doesn't ever occur to you, as you fashion your mask so carefully, that it will grow into your skin and graft itself, come to seem irremovable."
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26 Quotes by Claire Messud
Claire Messud has 26 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to…
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is…
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Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
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Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
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My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for…
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Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
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