"At first Babel longed for the use of……" — Nicole Krauss
"At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a single word would be to destroy the delicate fluency of silence."
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160 Quotes by Nicole Krauss
Nicole Krauss has 160 quotes on this site.
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The misery of other people is only an abstraction something that can be sympathized with only by drawing from one's…
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All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen.
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Sometimes I forget that the world is not on the same schedule as I. That everything is not dying, or…
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The more freedom I allow myself as a writer to wander, become lost and go into uncertain territory - and…
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Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad... I felt driven by the need to write a…
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David Grossman may be the most gifted writer I've ever read. [To the End of the Land is] powerful, shattering,…
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If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.
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To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number…
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What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I'd say it's this: an endless conversation about what it…
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And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to…
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The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all,…
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It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.
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More Babel Quotes
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Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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"I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing." "Oh,"…
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How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak…
— Peter Kreeft
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Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been…
— Marshall McLuhan
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A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.
— Alexander Smith
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As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to…
— Adam Sedgwick
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I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than…
— Benjamin Franklin
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I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of…
— Charles Darwin
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It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage…
— Arthur Keith
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Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our…
— Luther Burbank
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The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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