"For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience."

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Source : "Keeping it in the family" by Rachel Cusk, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2006.

Rachel Cusk

#Results Quotes #Form Quotes #Circumstances Quotes

“You can't get fit in one workout, just as you can't live your life in one day.”
“I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.”
“I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.”
“No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock.”
“At this sunset hour, the canyon walls are indescribably beautiful and I fear the magic of photography can never record what I see now. The tall spires near the canyon's top and the walls of the canyon up there look as if God had reached out and swiped a brush of golden paint across them, gilding these rocks in the bright glow of the setting sun.”
“No one says "Gee Whiz!" very much these days, of course, not even in America - both because that expression has long since been supplanted by others more colourful and less printable, and because our capacity for surprise has long since been dulled by a surfeit of sources.”
“Rouen shone in dark sunlight and a storm swept it away from my eyes and churned up the broad river with waves which pounced up like cats as our train drew out of the arches of the bridge.”
“I play guitar and sing when I'm not busy with school and acting.”

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