"Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand."

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Source : Interview with Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14-21, 2010.

Gary Shteyngart

#Hands Quotes #Brain Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“The universe is then one, infinite, immobile. ... It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobile.”
“"Out, damned spot!" That is the true cry of human nature. That stain cannot be removed without blood and that which is infinitely more, and deeper, and profounder, and more terrible than blood, of which blood is but the symbol - the suffering of Deity.”
“Women who have strong identities, who know themselves, really inspire me.”
“I recorded a song called, I Fall to Pieces, and I was in a car wreck. Now I'm worried because I have a brand-new record, and it's called Crazy!”
“What is virtue? It is to hold yourself to your fullest development as a person and as a responsible member of the human community”
“The world needs a strong America.”
“I hate the idea that someone think the destruction of Chicago as strategic affair, the destruction of Hamburg as a tactical one.”
“Without poetry the soul and heart of man starves and dies.”

Source : Amy Lowell (1971). “Poetry and Poets: Essays”, p.3, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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