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Katie Kitamura
“Two people who want the same thing will never generate the same intensity as two people who want different things, or one person who wants into an absence, a void--...”
Katie Kitamura, Audition

Rachel Cusk
“Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying society the last word.”
Rachel Cusk, Parade
tags: art

Paul Murray
“Before he became a father, he imagined the relationship as being like an intensive version of owning a pet. The child, he thought, was essentially a passive, a vessel into which you poured your love. On TV that’s how it looked. Children were silent, dormant; you went into their bedrooms, gazed down at them fondly, drew the blankets over them as they slept.

But in life, he discovered, parenthood was like – it was – living with a person. A new person, with strong opinions, strong tastes, arbitrary swings of emotion, all of them addressed at you. You were the passive one: the work of care was primarily to endure, to weather the endless, buffeting storms of unmediated will.”
Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

Katie Kitamura
“Because in fact we don’t want to see the thing itself, on a screen or on a stage, we don’t want to see actual pain or suffering or death, but its representation. Our awareness of the performance is what allows us to enjoy the emotion, to creep close to it and breathe in its atmosphere, performance allows this dangerous proximity.”
Katie Kitamura, Audition

Hisham Matar
“For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes.”
Hisham Matar, My Friends
tags: exile

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