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Ben Lerner Quotes By Ben Lerner: The chicken is a little dry and/or you've

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

Ben Lerner Quotes By Ben Lerner: The language of poetry is the exact opposite

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

Ben Lerner Quotes By Ben Lerner: I didn't want to write another book about

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

Ben Lerner Quotes By Ben Lerner: I promised to pass through a series of

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

Ben Lerner Quotes By Ben Lerner: Shaving is a way to start the workday

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

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

You are the first and last indigenous Nintendo. — Ben Lerner

Ben Lerner Quotes By Ben Lerner: The fatal problem with poetry: poems.

The fatal problem with poetry: poems. — Ben Lerner

Ben Lerner Quotes By Ben Lerner: Are there are fireflies on the West Coast?

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

Ben Lerner Quotes By Ben Lerner: I don't want what we're doing to just

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

Ben Lerner Quotes By Ben Lerner: I imagined the passengers could see me, imagined

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

Ben Lerner Quotes By Ben Lerner: The lie described my life better than the

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

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

The scare quotes burn off like fog. — Ben Lerner

Ben Lerner Quotes By Ben Lerner: Since the world is ending," Peter quoted from

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

Ben Lerner Quotes By Ben Lerner: What normally felt like the only possible world

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

Ben Lerner Quotes By Ben Lerner: I have no interest in artists who are

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

Ben Lerner Quotes By Ben Lerner: Nothing in the world, I thought to myself,

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

Ben Lerner Quotes By Ben Lerner: Henry James claim that if you want to

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

Ben Lerner Quotes By Ben Lerner: I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I

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

Ben Lerner Quotes By Ben Lerner: The story and the poem are obviously changed

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

Ben Lerner Quotes By Ben Lerner: I could displace the mystery of my speech

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

Ben Lerner Quotes By Ben Lerner: [A] "poem" is understood as [something] referring to

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

Ben Lerner Quotes By Ben Lerner: The transpersonal is more awe-inspiring, more exciting than

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

Ben Lerner Quotes By Ben Lerner: The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it

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

Ben Lerner Quotes By Ben Lerner: Art has to offer something other than stylized

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

Ben Lerner Quotes By Ben Lerner: Every relationship can feel saturated by market logic

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

Ben Lerner Quotes By Ben Lerner: I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more

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

Ben Lerner Quotes By Ben Lerner: Just in case God isn't dead, our astronauts

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

Ben Lerner Quotes By Ben Lerner: The voices and laughter and birds and wind

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

Ben Lerner Quotes By Ben Lerner: Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are

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

Ben Lerner Quotes By Ben Lerner: How many out-of-character things did I need to

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

Ben Lerner Quotes By Ben Lerner: I could imagine it in a way that

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

Ben Lerner Quotes By Ben Lerner: I've been building a fiction in part around

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. — Ben Lerner