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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
The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.
— Nicole Krauss
It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.
— Nicole Krauss
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
The plural of elf is elves! What a language! What a world!
— Nicole Krauss
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
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
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
Three taps means "Are you alive?" Two means "Yes," one "No.
— Nicole Krauss
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
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
Left to my own devices, I'm content to wake myself with a fart.
— Nicole Krauss
I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.
— Nicole Krauss
I forced myself to picture the last moments. The penultimate breath. A final sigh. And yet. It was always followed by another.
— Nicole Krauss
The truth is the thing I invented so that I could survive.
— Nicole Krauss
23. OUTSIDE, IT WAS STILL COMING DOWN
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He died alone because he was too embarrassed to phone anyone.
— Nicole Krauss
I'm very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well.
— Nicole Krauss
After all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?
— Nicole Krauss
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
I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245)
— Nicole Krauss
You are a shell of a man, all she has to do is knock against you to find out you are empty.
— Nicole Krauss
And so he did the hardest thing he'd ever done in his life: he picked up his hat and walked away.
— Nicole Krauss
Lonely people are always up in the middle of the night.
— Nicole Krauss
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
The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.
— Nicole Krauss
I thought: I didn't live forever.
— Nicole Krauss
I though, So this is how they send the angel. Stalled at the age when she loved you most.
— Nicole Krauss
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
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
Who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of his loneliness?
— Nicole Krauss
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
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
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
Part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you.
— Nicole Krauss
At the end, all that is left of you are your possessions
— Nicole Krauss
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
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
There's no match for the silence of GOD.
— Nicole Krauss
Holding hands, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together.
— Nicole Krauss
Larger than life ... I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life?
— Nicole Krauss
Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all.
— Nicole Krauss
You hear a sound and it's truth turning in its grave.
— Nicole Krauss
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
Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you.
— Nicole Krauss
Aside from myself, there was no sign of me.
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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
Holy shit, Bird," I whispered through my teeth. "At least try to be normal. You have to at least try.
— Nicole Krauss
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
Life in general in my experience gets deeper and deeper, more and more profound, more and more complex, the older one gets.
— Nicole Krauss
In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.
— Nicole Krauss
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
When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?
— Nicole Krauss
There are so many ways to be alive, but only one way to be dead.
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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
At night the sky is pure astronomy.
— Nicole Krauss
I scowled at the world. And the world scowled back. We were locked in a stare of mutual disgust.
— Nicole Krauss
All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen.
— Nicole Krauss
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
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
To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.
— Nicole Krauss
I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.
— Nicole Krauss
I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.
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