87 Quotes by Sarah Manguso

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    Everything that happens is the last time it happens. We see things only as their own fatal brightness and there is nothing after that brightness.

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    It isn’t so much that geniuses make it look easy; it’s that they make it look it fast.

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    There truly are two kinds of people: you and everyone else.

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    To write a diary is to make a series of choices about what to omit, what to forget.

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    I tend to forget that my measurement of time is designed to distract me from what’s really happening.

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    Biographies should also contain the events that failed to foreshadow.

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