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“Now that so many years have passed, now that I remember with the benefit of an understanding I didn't then have, I think of that conversation and it seems implausible that its importance didn't hit me in the face. (And I tell myself at the same time that we're terrible judges of the present moment, maybe because the present doesn't actually exist: all is memory, this sentence that I just wrote is already a memory, this word is a memory that you, reader, just read).”
― The Sound of Things Falling
― The Sound of Things Falling
“Remember: The rules, like streets, can only take you to known places.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“I always question artists who are successful in whatever they do—I think what that means is that they’re repeating themselves and not taking enough risks.”
― Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
― Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
“But what if the novels were right? What if sentimentality was closer to the truth of life and cynicism was the evasion”
― Clever Girl
― Clever Girl
“For the first three months, I place each student at a table with a thousand pieces of white paper and a trash can underneath. Every day they have to sit at the table for several hours and write ideas. They put the ideas they like on the right side of the table; the ones they don’t like, they put in the trash. But we don’t throw out the trash. After three months, I only take the ideas from the trash can. I don’t even look at the ideas they liked. Because the trash can is a treasure trove of things they’re afraid to do.”
― Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
― Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
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