"Sometimes, waking early before the others, wandering the……" — Nicole Krauss
"Sometimes, waking early before the others, wandering the rooms wrapped in a blanket or drinking my tea in the empty kitchen, I had that most rare of feelings, the sense that the world, so consistently overwhelming and incomprehensible, in fact has an order, oblique as it may seem, and I a place within it."
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Nicole Krauss
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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 Blanket Quotes
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their…
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The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.
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I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel…
— Jeff Buckley
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I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom,…
— Pamela Anderson
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No. 1, it [amnesty for illegal aliens] demoralizes the people that are going through the legal process. It's a very…
— Marco Rubio
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Far too often, we fathers avoid the subject because it's so awkward. The subject I am referring to is: buying…
— Dave Barry
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The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe.…
— Wendell Willkie
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America is not like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many…
— Jesse Jackson
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His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.
— Mark Twain
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In the past, yes, I have made sweeping indictments of all white people. I never will be guilty of that…
— Malcolm X
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The next time you find yourself alone in a dark alley facing the undeniables of life, don't cover them with…
— Max Lucado
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When my first daughter was born, my husband held her in his hands and said, 'My God, she's so beautiful.'…
— Ayelet Waldman
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