"We met each other when we were young,……" — Nicole Krauss
"We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it."
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160 Quotes by Nicole Krauss
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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 Disappointment Quotes
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Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I…
— Joseph Barbera
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I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but…
— Tom Baker
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
— Ansel Adams
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No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I…
— Christian Bale
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Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
— Bernard Baruch
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience…
— Joseph Addison
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.
— Michael Bergin
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Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for…
— Bruno Bettelheim
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
— Ambrose Bierce
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
— William Blake
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Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
— William Blake
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