Rachel Kushner Quotes
I had always wanted to include images in a novel, and with my first book, 'Telex From Cuba,' I made an elaborate website that is basically all images.
Quotes to Explore
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I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
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I always have issues with trust.
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I'm just in love with Burberry. Always have been, always will be.
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My perspective was always being on a number one show doesn't mean anything if I'm not still working consistently at 40 to 50 and 60 years old.
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Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.
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Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
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I'm not going to break up my family, not for a book.
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One always wonders about roads not taken.
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My first thought is always of light.
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I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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I was always very focused on how people dressed.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
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I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened.
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I have to say goodbye to things in order to take on bigger things that I've always wanted to do.
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It is rare and very inspiring that a head of state would make such an investment of time to write a book like this. It is a fine gift to the judokas of the world as well as to those of Russia...Vladimir Putin Sensei and his co-writers have established themselves as gifted writers and contributors to the judo world.
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If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.
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There would not be any absolute necessity for reserve if the world were honest; yet even then it would prove expedient. For, in order to attain any degree of deference, it seems necessary that people should imagine you have more accomplishments than you discover.
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I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.
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I had always wanted to include images in a novel, and with my first book, 'Telex From Cuba,' I made an elaborate website that is basically all images.
