Intelligence Quote by Sarah Manguso

“Great talents encourage great incapacities, but maintaining an inability to cook an egg or drive a car won't make you into a genius.” quote by Sarah Manguso — Download Open image

““Great talents encourage great incapacities, but maintaining an inability to cook an egg or drive a car won't make you into a genius.””

Sarah Manguso

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I like people who possess either deep mastery or deep empathy, but not as much as I like those who possess both.

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“There will come a time when people decide you've had enough of your grief, and they'll try to take it away from you.”

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“It’s impossible to fail if one doesn’t know how the end should look. And it’s impossible to succeed. But it’s possible to enjoy.”

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“I tend to forget that my measurement of time is designed to distract me from what's really happening.”

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My existence shrank from an arrow of light pointing into the future forever to a speck of light that was the present moment. I…

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“Whatever you're feeling, billions already have. Feel for them.”

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“ My friend Isabel says, When you’re writing even a short novel, with at least a couple of subplots, and God only knows how…

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The only thing I've consistently been interested in in the last twenty-five years is writing very short texts. That continues to interest me as a project, to contain some part of reality, which is chaotic by definition, in a contained space. I like small apartments. I like getting rid of stuff. I went through my files yesterday and spent hours…

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“Like a vase, a heart breaks once. After that, it just yields to its flaws.”

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