238 Quotes by Rachel Kushner
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I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us.
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I had decided that it is the fate of my generation never to have known the noble law of the sea, and to live, instead, in an era when the captain leaves his ship not last, but first. Call it the new spirit of capitalism, ushered in with all the other forms of ruthlessness that mark contemporary times [Kushner, Rachel, Diary, London Review of Books, January 14, 2015].
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A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made made curious. They seemed to think it had something to do with them.
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Δεν τον είχα φιλήσει αλλά ήξερα ότι θα γινόταν κι αυτό, και το ήξερε ότι το ήξερα, και υπήρχε κάτι σαν αμοιβαία χαρά σε τούτη την ολίσθηση προς το αναπόδραστο, κι ας μην ήξερα το όνομά του ή αν ο,τιδήποτε από όσα έλεγε ήταν αλήθεια.
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We should torture language to tell the truth.
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The three passions,” Stanley had said to me that morning, “are love, hate, and ignorance. Ignorance is the strongest.
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A forced contemplation of the heavens, crisp and angelic blue, a classic prelude to death.
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Where people are gone the night falls upward, black and unmanned.
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Who knew why they waited, I thought, understanding that I, too, had it in me to wait. To expect change to come from outside, to concentrate on the task of meeting it, waiting to meet it, rather than going out and finding it.
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