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The best thing about time passing is the privilege of running out of it, of watching the wave of mortality break over me and everyone I know,
— Sarah Manguso
It takes time to recover from having run somewhere. But sometimes one just wants to run. Anywhere.
— Sarah Manguso
Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing.
— Sarah Manguso
It isn't so much that geniuses make it look easy; it's that they make it look it fast.
— Sarah Manguso
Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of self.
— Sarah Manguso
One must be able to empathize with a suicide yet not become one.
— Sarah Manguso
Progress takes place in the dark, when you aren't trying.
— Sarah Manguso
The trouble with letting people see you at your worst isn't that they'll remember; it's that you'll remember.
— Sarah Manguso
You can choose your friends but not your friendships.
— Sarah Manguso
Sometimes a single sentence can be enough to fill the imagination completely. And sometimes a book's title is enough.
— Sarah Manguso
The memory and maybe the fact of every kiss start disappearing the moment the two mouths part.
— Sarah Manguso
This is suffering's lesson: pay attention. The important part might come in a form you do not recognize.
— Sarah Manguso
Nothing, nobody matters. And yet the world is full of love
— Sarah Manguso
The trouble with setting goals is that you're constantly working toward what you used to want.
— Sarah Manguso
I reread my favorite books to make sure they're still perfect, but rereading them wears away at their perfection.
— Sarah Manguso
I've written whole books in order to avoid writing other books.
— Sarah Manguso
Only a fire can teach you what survives a fire. No, it teaches you what can survive that fire.
— Sarah Manguso
I keep three kinds of books: those I want to read, those I want to reread, and those I want to reopen just to confirm how bad they are.
— Sarah Manguso
Think of this as a short book composed entirely of what I hoped would be a long book's quotable passages.
— Sarah Manguso
Experience in itself wasn't enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I'd missed it.
— Sarah Manguso
Slowly, slowly, I accumulate sentences. I have no idea what I'm doing until suddenly it reveals itself, almost done.
— Sarah Manguso
I wanted to remember what I could bear to remember and convince myself it was all there was.
— Sarah Manguso
I'd never have guessed which people I'd still know by now.
— Sarah Manguso
On the page, these might look like the stones of a ruin, strewn by time and weather, but I was here.
— Sarah Manguso
Look at me, dancing my little dance for a few moments against the background of eternity.
— Sarah Manguso
I tend to forget that my measurement of time is designed to distract me from what's really happening.
— Sarah Manguso
I like people who possess either deep mastery or deep empathy, but not as much as I like those who possess both.
— Sarah Manguso
Difficulty becomes familiar, at least, if no less difficult.
— Sarah Manguso
Anger conceals pain. It also conceals love.
— Sarah Manguso
You'll never know what your mother went through.
— Sarah Manguso