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

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

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

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

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

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

The fatal problem with poetry: poems. — Ben Lerner

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

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

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

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

The scare quotes burn off like fog. — Ben Lerner

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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