"The apartment was entirely, was only, for her:……" — Claire Messud
"The apartment was entirely, was only, for her: a wall of books, both read and unread, all of them dear to her not only in themselves, their tender spines, but in the moments or periods they evoked… Her self, then, was represented in her books; her times in her records; and the rest of the room she thought of as a pure, blank slate."
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26 Quotes by Claire Messud
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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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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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