335 Quotes by Nicole Krauss

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    I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn't ready for the world. I've always arrived too late for my life.

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    For me, the most powerful way to write about something is through the absence of it. Rather than writing about what it was to become a new mother, I wrote, for example, a father facing death and addressing his estranged son about the regrets of his relationship.

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    ... as a rule of thumb, whenever there appears a plural, correct for a singular. Should I ever let slip a royal WE, put me out of my misery with a swift blow to the head.

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    Life in general in my experience gets deeper and deeper, more and more profound, more and more complex, the older one gets.

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    What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I'd say it's this: an endless conversation about what it means to be human. And to read literature is to engage in that conversation.

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    I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. It took seven languages to make me; it would be nice if I could have spoken just one.

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    ...we take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design where there is none.

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    Sometimes I thought about nothing and sometimes I thought about my life. At least I made a living. What kind of living? A living. It wasn't easy. I found out how little is unbearable.

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