238 Quotes by Rachel Kushner
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A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious.
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Since it’s fiction, the book resonates, at least for me, on various levels, some of which intimate ideas about history but none of which have the kind of directly causal reasoning you cite.
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There is no real appeal for me in an image of a woman on a motorcycle.
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Reality, in a sense, was not an objective place where you were thrust. You had to maintain your hold on it by vigilantly keeping watch over whatever slight and intangible thing gave your life its meaning. Call it a soul, or presence. Whatever it was, a prisoner or guest and you had to trick it or petition it into lingering.
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Every person has a range. In fiction, you get to be it all. I’m as much the men in my book as I am the women. I write how I write and there is no mission to stake a claim.
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Crazy people only lose their cunning last, if they ever lose it.
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Whatever she was or wasn’t, she looked like a liar and he liked liars.
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My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.
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No Tank Tops, the sign had said at Youth Guidance. Because it was presumed the parents didn’t know better than to show up to court looking like hell. The sign might have said Your Poverty Reeks.
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