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Nicole Krauss quotes: And then I thought: perhaps that is what it means to be a father- to teach your child to live without you. If so no one was a greater father And then I thought: perhaps that is what it means to be a father- to teach your child to live without you. If so no one was a greater father than I.
Nicole Krauss quotes: I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. It took seven languages to make me; it would be nice if I could have spoken just one. I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. It took seven languages to make me; it would be nice if I could have spoken just one.
Nicole Krauss quotes: The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition. The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.
Nicole Krauss quotes: If you don't know what it feels like to have someone you love put a hand below your bottom rib for the first time, what chance is there for love? If you don't know what it feels like to have someone you love put a hand below your bottom rib for the first time, what chance is there for love?
Nicole Krauss quotes: It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself. It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.
Nicole Krauss quotes: She abandoned the garden, and the mums and asters that had trusted her to see them through to the first frost hung their waterlogged heads. She abandoned the garden, and the mums and asters that had trusted her to see them through to the first frost hung their waterlogged heads.
Nicole Krauss quotes: After all who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness After all who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness
Nicole Krauss quotes: The plural of elf is elves! What a language! What a world! The plural of elf is elves! What a language! What a world!
Nicole Krauss quotes: Part of the work of writing a novel is to uncover the symmetries or connections that make it whole, which might not reveal itself at first. Part of the work of writing a novel is to uncover the symmetries or connections that make it whole, which might not reveal itself at first.
Nicole Krauss quotes: And yet still the question was there, and my mind went to it like a tongue probing the tender spot of a loose tooth: it hurt but I wanted to And yet still the question was there, and my mind went to it like a tongue probing the tender spot of a loose tooth: it hurt but I wanted to know
Nicole Krauss quotes: Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering. Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.
Nicole Krauss quotes: How was it possible to wake up every day and be recognizable to another when so often one was barely recognizable to oneself? How was it possible to wake up every day and be recognizable to another when so often one was barely recognizable to oneself?
Nicole Krauss quotes: Three taps means "Are you alive?" Two means "Yes," one "No. Three taps means "Are you alive?" Two means "Yes," one "No.
Nicole Krauss quotes: He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it. He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it.
Nicole Krauss quotes: I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a writer. I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a writer.
Nicole Krauss quotes: We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it. We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.
Nicole Krauss quotes: Left to my own devices, I'm content to wake myself with a fart. Left to my own devices, I'm content to wake myself with a fart.
Nicole Krauss quotes: I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn't ready for the world. I've always arrived too late for my life. I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn't ready for the world. I've always arrived too late for my life.
Nicole Krauss quotes: If you remember the first time you saw Alma, you also remember the last. If you remember the first time you saw Alma, you also remember the last.
Nicole Krauss quotes: I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated. I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.
Nicole Krauss quotes: I forced myself to picture the last moments. The penultimate breath. A final sigh. And yet. It was always followed by another. I forced myself to picture the last moments. The penultimate breath. A final sigh. And yet. It was always followed by another.
Nicole Krauss quotes: The truth is the thing I invented so that I could survive. The truth is the thing I invented so that I could survive.
Nicole Krauss quotes: 23. OUTSIDE, IT WAS STILL COMING DOWN 23. OUTSIDE, IT WAS STILL COMING DOWN
Nicole Krauss quotes: He died alone because he was too embarrassed to phone anyone. He died alone because he was too embarrassed to phone anyone.
Nicole Krauss quotes: I'm very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well. I'm very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well.
Nicole Krauss quotes: The price we paid for the volumes of ourselves that we suffocated in the dark. The price we paid for the volumes of ourselves that we suffocated in the dark.
Nicole Krauss quotes: After all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood? After all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?
Nicole Krauss quotes: An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand ... An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand ...
Nicole Krauss quotes: I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245) I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245)
Nicole Krauss quotes: You are a shell of a man, all she has to do is knock against you to find out you are empty. You are a shell of a man, all she has to do is knock against you to find out you are empty.
Nicole Krauss quotes: Family! So sorry, forgive me. I thought I'd met all the mispocheh! Family! So sorry, forgive me. I thought I'd met all the mispocheh!
Nicole Krauss quotes: And so he did the hardest thing he'd ever done in his life: he picked up his hat and walked away. And so he did the hardest thing he'd ever done in his life: he picked up his hat and walked away.
Nicole Krauss quotes: Lonely people are always up in the middle of the night. Lonely people are always up in the middle of the night.
Nicole Krauss quotes: You can't imagine how hard I am on myself. Nothing pummels me like my own doubts, the feeling of how far I still have to go. You can't imagine how hard I am on myself. Nothing pummels me like my own doubts, the feeling of how far I still have to go.
Nicole Krauss quotes: The truth is the thing I invented so I could live. The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.
Nicole Krauss quotes: I thought: I didn't live forever. I thought: I didn't live forever.
Nicole Krauss quotes: I though, So this is how they send the angel. Stalled at the age when she loved you most. I though, So this is how they send the angel. Stalled at the age when she loved you most.
Nicole Krauss quotes: If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life. If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life.
Nicole Krauss quotes: A wave of nausea came over me. And yet. Sometimes you need a stroke of genius and, lo and behold, genius comes and strokes you A wave of nausea came over me. And yet. Sometimes you need a stroke of genius and, lo and behold, genius comes and strokes you
Nicole Krauss quotes: By heart, this is not an expression I use lightly. My heart is weak and unreliable. By heart, this is not an expression I use lightly. My heart is weak and unreliable.
Nicole Krauss quotes: Who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of his loneliness? Who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of his loneliness?
Nicole Krauss quotes: I tried to make sense of things. Now that I think about it, I have always tried. It could be my epitaph. LEO GURSKY: HE TRIED TO MAKE SENSE. I tried to make sense of things. Now that I think about it, I have always tried. It could be my epitaph. LEO GURSKY: HE TRIED TO MAKE SENSE.
Nicole Krauss quotes: Put even a fool in front of the window and you'll get a Spinoza; in the end life makes window watchers of us all Put even a fool in front of the window and you'll get a Spinoza; in the end life makes window watchers of us all
Nicole Krauss quotes: We search for patterns, you see, only to find where the patterns break. And it's there, in that fissure, that we pitch our tents and wait. We search for patterns, you see, only to find where the patterns break. And it's there, in that fissure, that we pitch our tents and wait.
Nicole Krauss quotes: I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table. While other people were talking to me, I I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table. While other people were talking to me, I read.
Nicole Krauss quotes: Part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you. Part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you.
Nicole Krauss quotes: At the end, all that is left of you are your possessions At the end, all that is left of you are your possessions
Nicole Krauss quotes: Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet. Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet.
Nicole Krauss quotes: That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox. That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.
Nicole Krauss quotes: When they write my obituary. Tomorrow. Or the next day. It will say, Leo Gursky is survived by an apartment full of shit When they write my obituary. Tomorrow. Or the next day. It will say, Leo Gursky is survived by an apartment full of shit
Nicole Krauss quotes: There's no match for the silence of GOD. There's no match for the silence of GOD.
Nicole Krauss quotes: Holding hands, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together. Holding hands, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together.
Nicole Krauss quotes: Larger than life ... I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life? Larger than life ... I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life?
Nicole Krauss quotes: Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all. Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all.
Nicole Krauss quotes: You hear a sound and it's truth turning in its grave. You hear a sound and it's truth turning in its grave.
Nicole Krauss quotes: There was no one to call me to bed, no one to demand that the rhythms of my life operate in a duet. There was no one to call me to bed, no one to demand that the rhythms of my life operate in a duet.
Nicole Krauss quotes: Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you. Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you.
Nicole Krauss quotes: Aside from myself, there was no sign of me. Aside from myself, there was no sign of me.
Nicole Krauss quotes: I know sometimes things are hard with Mum." "She misses Dad," I said, which was like pointing out that a sky-scraper is tall. Uncle Julian nodded. I know sometimes things are hard with Mum." "She misses Dad," I said, which was like pointing out that a sky-scraper is tall. Uncle Julian nodded.
Nicole Krauss quotes: I helped those in, who were locked out, others i helped keep out, what couldn't be let in, so that they could sleep without nightmares. I helped those in, who were locked out, others i helped keep out, what couldn't be let in, so that they could sleep without nightmares.
Nicole Krauss quotes: Holy shit, Bird," I whispered through my teeth. "At least try to be normal. You have to at least try. Holy shit, Bird," I whispered through my teeth. "At least try to be normal. You have to at least try.
Nicole Krauss quotes: The malpractice for advice-giving is like five times as much as a craniotomy. The malpractice for advice-giving is like five times as much as a craniotomy.
Nicole Krauss quotes: One is always changing. I don't want to write the same book and I couldn't, because I'm a different person. One is always changing. I don't want to write the same book and I couldn't, because I'm a different person.
Nicole Krauss quotes: But how can one regret what, to the mind, has never existed? Even loss is an inaccurate description, for what loss is without the awareness of losing? But how can one regret what, to the mind, has never existed? Even loss is an inaccurate description, for what loss is without the awareness of losing?
Nicole Krauss quotes: Life in general in my experience gets deeper and deeper, more and more profound, more and more complex, the older one gets. Life in general in my experience gets deeper and deeper, more and more profound, more and more complex, the older one gets.
Nicole Krauss quotes: When your pants are down around your ankles, that's when everyone arrives. When your pants are down around your ankles, that's when everyone arrives.
Nicole Krauss quotes: I know there is a moral to this story, but I don't know what it is. I know there is a moral to this story, but I don't know what it is.
Nicole Krauss quotes: It's strange what the heart can do when the mind is giving the directions. It's strange what the heart can do when the mind is giving the directions.
Nicole Krauss quotes: In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry. In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.
Nicole Krauss quotes: Sooner or later she'll figure out the truth: you're a shell of a man, all she has to do is knock against you to find out you're empty. Sooner or later she'll figure out the truth: you're a shell of a man, all she has to do is knock against you to find out you're empty.
Nicole Krauss quotes: When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything? When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?
Nicole Krauss quotes: There are so many ways to be alive, but only one way to be dead. There are so many ways to be alive, but only one way to be dead.
Nicole Krauss quotes: He was an average man. A man willing to accept things as they were, and, because of this, he lacked the potential to be in anyway original. He was an average man. A man willing to accept things as they were, and, because of this, he lacked the potential to be in anyway original.
Nicole Krauss quotes: At night the sky is pure astronomy. At night the sky is pure astronomy.
Nicole Krauss quotes: I scowled at the world. And the world scowled back. We were locked in a stare of mutual disgust. I scowled at the world. And the world scowled back. We were locked in a stare of mutual disgust.
Nicole Krauss quotes: All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen. All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen.
Nicole Krauss quotes: I spent the morning reading Ovid. I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. I spent the morning reading Ovid. I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time.
Nicole Krauss quotes: If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it. If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.
Nicole Krauss quotes: What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web. What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web.
Nicole Krauss quotes: To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life. To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.
Nicole Krauss quotes: I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality. I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.
Nicole Krauss quotes: I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without. I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.
Nicole Krauss quotes: Maybe Grodzenski was showing me, with his quiet pride, the reason he hummed a little while he worked. Maybe Grodzenski was showing me, with his quiet pride, the reason he hummed a little while he worked.
Nicole Krauss quotes: She gave him one of those broad smiles she reserved for strangers, as if she were aware of being able to pass, in their eyes, for an ordinary woman. She gave him one of those broad smiles she reserved for strangers, as if she were aware of being able to pass, in their eyes, for an ordinary woman.
Nicole Krauss quotes: I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade ago. I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade ago.

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