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Ottessa Moshfegh

"In fiction the narrator is a performance of voice, and it can be any style of voice, but I'm interested in the ways that a voice that knows it's telling a story is actually telling a different story than it intends to. In the way that I can sit here and tell you what I had for breakfast, but I'm really telling you that I'm having an affair, something like that. And I don't think my writing is plain, but I think a lot of my characters are just talking. There is vulnerability there, in that we can start to see through them, we can start to see where they're deceiving themselves."

-- Ottessa Moshfegh

#Writing Quotes #Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“There are two things that you have to do in life: You have to die, and you have to live until you die. The rest is up to you.”
“I absolutely adore and idolise women. All women. I think they are all amazing. The female musicians I've met have been far more inspiring than the male ones. Women tend to be much more creative and ambitious. I think I may have been a woman in a past life.”
“To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.”
“The giant imaginary bottle of whiskey is with me.”
“And with a few moments like that, with doubt from here and there, and within ourselves we were just striving for excellence. We had somehow understood and felt that all the musicians who would come to the House later on, that all the singers, the big artists, were striving for excellence in their life and we thought a house for them, thereâ€™s no limit to the excellence it should have because it should match their strive for perfection”
“We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. And nothing but observation and experience will teach us the ways to maintain or to bring back the state of health. It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; ... nature alone cures. ... And what [true] nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.”
“A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.”
“Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.”

Source : Jim Hightower (2004). “Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country and It's Time to Take It Back”, p.127, Penguin

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