238 Quotes by Rachel Kushner

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    I thought of the girl in the photo in Ronnie's studio, the one on layaway. She was probably waiting for him this very moment, somewhere downtown. Checking the clock, applying lipstick, concentrating herself into an arrow pointed at Ronnie. Doing the various things women did when they had to wait for something they wanted.

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    My aspiration to spend time at sea as requisite literary training died long ago, as a teenager, on a white-knuckled ferry ride to Elba during a torrential rainstorm [Kushner, Rachel, Diary, London Review of Books, January 14, 2015].

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    When the revolution comes it won’t make any difference,” Gloria said. “They’ll have a special guillotine for girls like that. With an even rustier blade for the artists who ogle her.

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    You would not have gone. I understand that. You would not have gone up to his room. You would not have asked him for help. You would not have been wandering lost at midnight at age eleven. You would have been safe and dry and asleep, at home with your mother and father who cared about you and had rules, curfews, expectations. Everything for you would have been different. But if you were me, you would have done what I did. You would have gone, hopeful and stupid, to get the money for the taxi.

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    Δύσκολο ακόμα και να μιλήσεις γι' αυτό", μου είπε. "Αισθάνομαι αλλαγμένη. Πες πως είμαι ένα πουλόβερ. Και πιάνεται ένα νήμα που έχει ξεφύγει και τραβιέται και αρχίζει να ξετυλίγεται το πουλόβερ και δε μένει παρά μονάχα ένας μεγάλος μαλακός σωρός από το νήμα. Μπορείς να κάνεις κάτι μ' αυτό, με τον σωρό από το νήμα, αλλά δε θα γίνει ποτέ ξανά πουλόβερ. Αυτή είναι η κατάσταση των πραγμάτων".

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