"Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and the obscene, and shows, in this discomfiting, hypnotic work, just how rarely those categories are what they seem. The translation is excellent - what a rare relief."

-- Benjamin Moser

#Relief Quotes #Passionate Quotes #Sacred Quotes

“Maybe they notice me wincing whenever I hear them say it, but I don't know: there are all sorts of reasons I could be wincing. Life is a wince-a-thon.”
“All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.”
“I grew up with the idealistic notion that writing and literature were noble causes. I had no inkling, no sense of what I would eventually encounter in terms of people who weren't being sincere. I'm not saying that it happens always or a lot, but it happens enough that sometimes it makes me feel a little queasy.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I couldn't turn down The Rolling Stones. A real man would never turn down the chance of working with legends like them.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.”
“For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.”

Source : allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”
“They say God never gives us more than we can handle, but sometimes I think God has overestimated what I can take.”

Source : Blaize Clement (2007). “Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter: The First Dixie Hemingway Mystery”, p.218, Macmillan
“The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.”

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