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Perhaps sound is only an insanity of silence, a mad gibber of empty space grown fearful of listening to itself and hearing nothing.
— Steven Millhauser
I don't take off time from teaching to write. I take time off from writing to teach.
— Steven Millhauser
Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.
— Steven Millhauser
His ambition was to insert his dreams into the world, and if they were the wrong dreams, then he would dream them in solitude.
— Steven Millhauser
I want to make it a little inconvenient for everybody to get to me.
— Jesse Jackson Jr.
Franklin knew that the truth lay with the winter night: the world was silent and black-and-white.
— Steven Millhauser
Repetition for no reason is a sign of carelessness or pretentiousness, but there are plenty of good reasons to repeat words and phrases.
— Steven Millhauser
We know nothing. Absolutely nothing.
— Steven Millhauser
I longed for release from whatever it was I was. But whatever I was lay hard and immovable in me, like bone; I would never be free of my own weight.
— Steven Millhauser
If you fear phantoms, you're like a child frightened of seeing things in the dark.
— Steven Millhauser
A bad word triggers another in your opponent. Be ready to reap what you plant
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
I am often tired. I am sometimes discouraged. I am always sure.
— Steven Millhauser
When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.
— Will Rogers
Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The more the mouse pursues this line of of thought, the more it seems to him that the cat is a large, soft mouse.
— Steven Millhauser
I went to a public school in Oak Harbor, Ohio, and it's a very rural community. I was an artist kid, and I just didn't fit in very well.
— Crystal Bowersox
I'm pleased by anything in myself that strikes me as not myself.
— Steven Millhauser
I saw that I was in danger of becoming ordinary, and I understood that from now on I would have to be vigilant.
— Steven Millhauser
I expected no miracles; I wasn't young enough for dreams; I knew in my bones that I couldn't escape my troubles by changing the view from my window.
— Steven Millhauser
If we cannot all FEEL alike, we can all FEED alike on the Bread Life.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
We are happy to be here, where the sky has always seemed a little bluer, the leaves a little greener, than in other towns we know.
— Steven Millhauser
I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place.
— Steven Millhauser
If you read a story with an 'I' or a 'he' or a 'she,' you're in familiar territory - but 'we' is mostly unexplored. I think of 'we' as an adventure.
— Steven Millhauser
All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.
— Steven Millhauser
I completely love music. I used to be the music critic at 'The Improper Bostonian.' It's just something I've always loved very deeply.
— Matthew Tobin Anderson
Do you believe that the actor on the stage is really a villain? Let me ask you something else. If he isn't a villain, then is he a liar?
— Steven Millhauser
God pity the poor novelist.
— Steven Millhauser