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Ben Lerner quotes: The chicken is a little dry and/or you've ruined my life.

The chicken is a little dry and/or you've ruined my life.

Ben Lerner quotes: The language of poetry is the exact opposite of the language of mass media, I said, meaninglessly.

The language of poetry is the exact opposite of the language of mass media, I said, meaninglessly.

Ben Lerner quotes: I didn't want to write another book about fraudulence.

I didn't want to write another book about fraudulence.

Ben Lerner quotes: I promised to pass through a series of worlds with you, I remembered from her vows.

I promised to pass through a series of worlds with you, I remembered from her vows.

Ben Lerner quotes: Shaving is a way to start the workday by ritually not cutting your throat when you've the chance.

Shaving is a way to start the workday by ritually not cutting your throat when you've the chance.

Ben Lerner quotes: You are the first and last indigenous Nintendo.

You are the first and last indigenous Nintendo.

Ben Lerner quotes: The fatal problem with poetry: poems.

The fatal problem with poetry: poems.

Ben Lerner quotes: Are there are fireflies on the West Coast? I never saw any when I lived in California.

Are there are fireflies on the West Coast? I never saw any when I lived in California.

Ben Lerner quotes: I don't want what we're doing to just end up as notes for a novel.

I don't want what we're doing to just end up as notes for a novel.

Ben Lerner quotes: I imagined the passengers could see me, imagined I was a passenger that could see me looking up at myself looking down.

I imagined the passengers could see me, imagined I was a passenger that could see me looking up at myself looking down.

Ben Lerner quotes: The lie described my life better than the truth,' I added. 'Until it became a kind of truth.

The lie described my life better than the truth,' I added. 'Until it became a kind of truth.

Ben Lerner quotes: The scare quotes burn off like fog.

The scare quotes burn off like fog.

Ben Lerner quotes: Since the world is ending," Peter quoted from behind us, "why not let the children touch the paintings?

Since the world is ending," Peter quoted from behind us, "why not let the children touch the paintings?

Ben Lerner quotes: What normally felt like the only possible world became one among many

What normally felt like the only possible world became one among many

Ben Lerner quotes: I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who've made a commercialized fetish of the culture's stupidity.

I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who've made a commercialized fetish of the culture's stupidity.

Ben Lerner quotes: Nothing in the world, I thought to myself, is as old as what was futuristic in the past.

Nothing in the world, I thought to myself, is as old as what was futuristic in the past.

Ben Lerner quotes: Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost.

Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost.

Ben Lerner quotes: I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American.

I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American.

Ben Lerner quotes: The story and the poem are obviously changed by being placed in the novel, so in a sense they're no longer the works that preceded the novel.

The story and the poem are obviously changed by being placed in the novel, so in a sense they're no longer the works that preceded the novel.

Ben Lerner quotes: I could displace the mystery of my speech onto writing, the latter perhaps recharging the former

I could displace the mystery of my speech onto writing, the latter perhaps recharging the former

Ben Lerner quotes: [A] "poem" is understood as [something] referring to a failure of language to be equal to the possibilities it figures

[A] "poem" is understood as [something] referring to a failure of language to be equal to the possibilities it figures

Ben Lerner quotes: The transpersonal is more awe-inspiring, more exciting than the thing we confuse it for.

The transpersonal is more awe-inspiring, more exciting than the thing we confuse it for.

Ben Lerner quotes: The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

Ben Lerner quotes: Art has to offer something other than stylized despair.

Art has to offer something other than stylized despair.

Ben Lerner quotes: Every relationship can feel saturated by market logic or at best purchased at the price of the immiseration of others.

Every relationship can feel saturated by market logic or at best purchased at the price of the immiseration of others.

Ben Lerner quotes: I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.

I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.

Ben Lerner quotes: Just in case God isn't dead, our astronauts carry sidearms.

Just in case God isn't dead, our astronauts carry sidearms.

Ben Lerner quotes: The voices and laughter and birds and wind and traffic combined and separated gently.

The voices and laughter and birds and wind and traffic combined and separated gently.

Ben Lerner quotes: Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels.

Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels.

Ben Lerner quotes: How many out-of-character things did I need to do, I wondered, before the world rearranged itself around me?

How many out-of-character things did I need to do, I wondered, before the world rearranged itself around me?

Ben Lerner quotes: I could imagine it in a way that felt like remembering

I could imagine it in a way that felt like remembering

Ben Lerner quotes: I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding into the past.

I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding into the past.