Rachel Kushner Quotes
I know there are writers who like to say that every novel is hard, and it doesn't get easier. That may be the case, and I've only written two. But the first, to me, was characterized by an enduring oscillation between perseverance and a profound doubt.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.
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I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.
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I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.
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I don't want people to think of me as sexy.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only to gender, but also to race, religion, background and age.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid.
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Gods always behave like the people who make them.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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Most people aren't sure what's going to happen on a first date. Given that ambiguity, every woman must be totally aware at every moment that she is responsible for every choice she makes. … protect yourselves. See trouble coming.
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Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.
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Those who serve in our armed forces do so from a profound sense of duty to secure liberty for their fellow Americans. They enlist to serve their fellow citizens who express their will through elected representatives, not an unaccountable defense establishment.
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I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.
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The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.
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I know there are writers who like to say that every novel is hard, and it doesn't get easier. That may be the case, and I've only written two. But the first, to me, was characterized by an enduring oscillation between perseverance and a profound doubt.
