Claire Messud Quotes
I was in my senior year of high school when I read 'Notes From Underground' by Dostoyevsky, and it was an exhilarating discovery. I hadn't known up until that moment that fiction could be like that. Fiction could say these things, could be unseemly, could be unsettling and distressing in that particular way, that immediate and urgent way.
Claire Messud
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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Daniel Cormier
The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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Camille Paglia
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Martin McGuinness
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Cynthia Nixon
I was in my senior year of high school when I read 'Notes From Underground' by Dostoyevsky, and it was an exhilarating discovery. I hadn't known up until that moment that fiction could be like that. Fiction could say these things, could be unseemly, could be unsettling and distressing in that particular way, that immediate and urgent way.
Claire Messud
