238 Quotes by Rachel Kushner

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    The kids I knew growing up who worked on bikes all loved the smell of gas. It is the liquid agent for speed.

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    People who experience themselves as authentic are also experiencing themselves as myth, but that’s not the narrative they’re going with.

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    I didn’t think of the narrative as making a judgment. It didn’t occur to me the reader would either, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t possible there would be that risk.

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    Motorcycles aren’t about gaining agency, I don’t think.

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    A man could say every day that he wanted to change his life, was going to change it, and every day the lament became merely a part of the life he was already living, so that the desire for change was in fact a kind of stasis that allowed the unchanged life to continue, because at least the man knew to disapprove of it, which reassured him not all was lost.

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    Things are more complicated than some can admit. People are stupider and less demonic than some can admit.

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    I don’t really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the fiction, rather than make an argument or an assertion.

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    The thing is you keep existing whether you have a plan to do so or not, until you don’t exist, and then your plans are meaningless.

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