"What is literature, really? Boiled down to a……" — Nicole Krauss
"What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I'd say it's this: an endless conversation about what it means to be human. And to read literature is to engage in that conversation."
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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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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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There's no match for the silence of GOD.
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More Boiled Quotes
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one of 121 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.
— John Banville
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My mum and my husband are from Irish backgrounds, so we have a lot of potatoes. Chips, mashed, boiled, new…
— Jo Brand
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The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion;…
— Julie Burchill
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I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons…
— Jimmy Carter
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Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so…
— Maya Angelou
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But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the…
— J. B. Priestley
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When boiled down to its essence, unforgiveness is hatred.
— John R. Rice
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In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior.…
— Christopher Hitchens
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I have to have breakfast and breakfast has to be eggs, whether in omelet form, hard-boiled, or over-easy,
— Chrissy Teigen
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Really, all religious teachings can be boiled down to: “Just be cool. Don’t be an asshole.
— Nick Offerman
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It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up…
— Mel Smith
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