"The price we paid for the volumes of……" — Nicole Krauss

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"The price we paid for the volumes of ourselves that we suffocated in the dark."

— Nicole Krauss

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160 Quotes by Nicole Krauss

Nicole Krauss has 160 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The misery of other people is only an abstraction something that can be sympathized with only by drawing from one's…
All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen.
Sometimes I forget that the world is not on the same schedule as I. That everything is not dying, or…
The more freedom I allow myself as a writer to wander, become lost and go into uncertain territory - and…
Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad... I felt driven by the need to write a…
David Grossman may be the most gifted writer I've ever read. [To the End of the Land is] powerful, shattering,…
If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.
To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number…
What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I'd say it's this: an endless conversation about what it…
And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to…
The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all,…
It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.

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I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was,… — Darren Aronofsky
I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am… — Arthur Ashe
Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow. — Margaret Atwood
I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and… — Margaret Atwood
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy… — Saint Augustine
Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story,… — Paul Auster
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased… — Francis Bacon
My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put… — Russell Baker
Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark. — Christian Bale
I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control. — Lynda Barry
I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally… — Drew Barrymore
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.… — L. Frank Baum

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