11 quotes found
“I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.”
“You cant put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil.”
“You can’t put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil.”
“Looking repeatedly into the past you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life but rather with the phenomenon of memory.”
“For moderns - for us - there is something illicit, it seems, about wasted time, the empty hours of contemplation when a thought unfurls, figures of speech budding and blossoming, articulation drift...”
“Time, we like to say, cures all. But maybe the old saying doesnt mean time heals. Time cures a secret in its brine, keeping it and finally, paradoxically, destroying it. Nothing is left in that sal...”
“History, as it was purveyed to us, was not so much a narrative, not even the detached observation of the rise and fall of fortunes and cultures. It was the litany of loss, attended by the inevitabl...”
“We carry our wounds and perhaps even worse, our capacity to wound, forward with us. If we learn not only to tell our stories but to listen to what our stories tell us ... we are doing the work of m...”
“To speak, to write , without charm is to make utterances without reference to a reality outside oneself. It is an act devoid of the playfulness of art, without the attractive humility of one who kn...”
“Time, we like to say, cures all. But maybe the old saying doesn’t mean time heals. Time cures a secret in its brine, keeping it and finally, paradoxically, destroying it. Nothing is left in that sa...”
