238 Quotes by Rachel Kushner
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I’m a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I’m happy that way.
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I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I’m interested in what they say and how they say it.
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Leave, with no answer. Move on to the next question.
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Did you ever notice that women can seem common while men never do? You won’t ever hear anyone describe a man’s appearance as common. The common man means the average man, a typical man, a decent hardworking person of modest dreams and resources. A common woman is a woman who looks cheap. A woman who looks cheap doesn’t have to be respected, and so she has a certain value, a certain cheap value.
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God was ejected when we traveled from the closed world to the infinite universe. We were also ejected.
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I am occasionally enraptured by Western landscape. But I don’t identify that state of mind as having to do with my own origins, having grown up in the West, although I certainly crisscrossed Nevada countless times growing up, and then as a young adult, in cars and on motorcycles.
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The thing suppressed as an intrusion,” Eric said, “is almost always worth looking at.
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It’s hard to live on the streets. In prison, you can be someone. Life has order if you know how to do time, and I know. I’m an expert. Living in a tent is a temporary thing. You do it until you go back to prison. That’s just how it works.
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One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.
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