"How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding."

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Source : Andrew Sean Greer (2008). “The Story of a Marriage: A Novel”, p.65, Macmillan

Andrew Sean Greer

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“You grow a whole lot more as a writer by getting old stories out of the house and letting new ones come in and live with you until they grow up and are ready to go. Don't let the old ones stay there and grow fat and cranky and eat all the food out of the refrigerator. You have dozens of generations of stories inside you, but the only way to make room for the new ones is to write the old ones and mail them off.”
“You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.”
“I can never remember names. I'm so self-centered and have a terrible memory.”

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“Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.”
“For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.”
“Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.”
“The US has unthinkingly embarked upon a neoimperial policy that must involve us in virtually every great war of the coming century-and wars are the death of republics. If we continue on this course of reflexive interventions, enemies will one day answer our power with the weapon of the weak-terror, and eventually cataclysmic terrorism on US soil.”
“I've never worked as much as I would've wanted to, and that's why I end up doing a lot of stage as well, because stage is a full course meal”

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