"The moment had passed, the door between the……" — Nicole Krauss
"The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives we led had shut in our faces."
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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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When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to…
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I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you.…
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Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl…
— Tyra Banks
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I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in…
— Drew Barrymore
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Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
— John Barrymore
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I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations…
— Mario Batali
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In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology…
— Bob Beauprez
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When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
— Saul Bellow
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We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take…
— Robert Benchley
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance…
— John Berger
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