Sigrid Nunez Quotes

You might not remember what you had for dinner last night, but you remember everything about one particular summer of your youth. It's like that.

Sigrid Nunez

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• Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.

  

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• The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.

  

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• Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.

  

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• You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.

  

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• Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

  

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• Millennials - who will soon be a full one-third of American adults - may be especially ready to become engaged in politics with a candidate who wants to give them a government that will leave them alone and get its finances in order so that they don't inherit an economic collapse.

  

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• I remember disassembling and putting an old analog alarm clock together. It was a lot of fun figuring out why it still worked with that one spring missing.

  

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• Also, when you think about a show that you used to watch as a kid or as a teenager, you look at it through sort of rose colored glasses when you remember it.

  

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• I remember saying to someone when I got one of those ‘don’t do it’ [comments] – I just remember hearing my voice being calm and saying, ‘No, it’s going happen. It’s going to happen. I’m just letting you know.’

  

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• You might not remember what you had for dinner last night, but you remember everything about one particular summer of your youth. It's like that.

  

  Sigrid Nunez
  • Remember
  • Summer
  • Youth