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Sarah Manguso quotes: 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,

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 quotes: It takes time to recover from having run somewhere. But sometimes one just wants to run. Anywhere.

It takes time to recover from having run somewhere. But sometimes one just wants to run. Anywhere.

Sarah Manguso quotes: Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing.

Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing.

Sarah Manguso quotes: Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a chair can do.

Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a chair can do.

Sarah Manguso quotes: It isn't so much that geniuses make it look easy; it's that they make it look it fast.

It isn't so much that geniuses make it look easy; it's that they make it look it fast.

Sarah Manguso quotes: Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of self.

Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of self.

Sarah Manguso quotes: One must be able to empathize with a suicide yet not become one.

One must be able to empathize with a suicide yet not become one.

Sarah Manguso quotes: Progress takes place in the dark, when you aren't trying.

Progress takes place in the dark, when you aren't trying.

Sarah Manguso quotes: Around you move many seas. It is impossible not to drown a little.

Around you move many seas. It is impossible not to drown a little.

Sarah Manguso quotes: The trouble with letting people see you at your worst isn't that they'll remember; it's that you'll remember.

The trouble with letting people see you at your worst isn't that they'll remember; it's that you'll remember.

Sarah Manguso quotes: You can choose your friends but not your friendships.

You can choose your friends but not your friendships.

Sarah Manguso quotes: When a student surpasses my expectations, I feel proud and betrayed.

When a student surpasses my expectations, I feel proud and betrayed.

Sarah Manguso quotes: Sometimes a single sentence can be enough to fill the imagination completely. And sometimes a book's title is enough.

Sometimes a single sentence can be enough to fill the imagination completely. And sometimes a book's title is enough.

Sarah Manguso quotes: The memory and maybe the fact of every kiss start disappearing the moment the two mouths part.

The memory and maybe the fact of every kiss start disappearing the moment the two mouths part.

Sarah Manguso quotes: This is suffering's lesson: pay attention. The important part might come in a form you do not recognize.

This is suffering's lesson: pay attention. The important part might come in a form you do not recognize.

Sarah Manguso quotes: Nothing, nobody matters. And yet the world is full of love

Nothing, nobody matters. And yet the world is full of love

Sarah Manguso quotes: If you think something's happened quickly, you're looking at only a part of it.

If you think something's happened quickly, you're looking at only a part of it.

Sarah Manguso quotes: The trouble with setting goals is that you're constantly working toward what you used to want.

The trouble with setting goals is that you're constantly working toward what you used to want.

Sarah Manguso quotes: Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us - by taking everything.

Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us - by taking everything.

Sarah Manguso quotes: I reread my favorite books to make sure they're still perfect, but rereading them wears away at their perfection.

I reread my favorite books to make sure they're still perfect, but rereading them wears away at their perfection.

Sarah Manguso quotes: Depression is hard to describe not just because it is complex and abstract but also because it occupies the part of us capable of describing things.

Depression is hard to describe not just because it is complex and abstract but also because it occupies the part of us capable of describing things.

Sarah Manguso quotes: I've written whole books in order to avoid writing other books.

I've written whole books in order to avoid writing other books.

Sarah Manguso quotes: Only a fire can teach you what survives a fire. No, it teaches you what can survive that fire.

Only a fire can teach you what survives a fire. No, it teaches you what can survive that fire.

Sarah Manguso quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Think of this as a short book composed entirely of what I hoped would be a long book's quotable passages.

Think of this as a short book composed entirely of what I hoped would be a long book's quotable passages.

Sarah Manguso quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Slowly, slowly, I accumulate sentences. I have no idea what I'm doing until suddenly it reveals itself, almost done.

Slowly, slowly, I accumulate sentences. I have no idea what I'm doing until suddenly it reveals itself, almost done.

Sarah Manguso quotes: I wanted to remember what I could bear to remember and convince myself it was all there was.

I wanted to remember what I could bear to remember and convince myself it was all there was.

Sarah Manguso quotes: I'd never have guessed which people I'd still know by now.

I'd never have guessed which people I'd still know by now.

Sarah Manguso quotes: On the page, these might look like the stones of a ruin, strewn by time and weather, but I was here.

On the page, these might look like the stones of a ruin, strewn by time and weather, but I was here.

Sarah Manguso quotes: Everything that happens is the last time it happens. We see things only as their own fatal brightness and there is nothing after that brightness.

Everything that happens is the last time it happens. We see things only as their own fatal brightness and there is nothing after that brightness.

Sarah Manguso quotes: the wild velocity of motherhood, an enforced momentum forbidding contemplation.

the wild velocity of motherhood, an enforced momentum forbidding contemplation.

Sarah Manguso quotes: Look at me, dancing my little dance for a few moments against the background of eternity.

Look at me, dancing my little dance for a few moments against the background of eternity.

Sarah Manguso quotes: I tend to forget that my measurement of time is designed to distract me from what's really happening.

I tend to forget that my measurement of time is designed to distract me from what's really happening.

Sarah Manguso quotes: I like people who possess either deep mastery or deep empathy, but not as much as I like those who possess both.

I like people who possess either deep mastery or deep empathy, but not as much as I like those who possess both.

Sarah Manguso quotes: Difficulty becomes familiar, at least, if no less difficult.

Difficulty becomes familiar, at least, if no less difficult.

Sarah Manguso quotes: Anger conceals pain. It also conceals love.

Anger conceals pain. It also conceals love.

Sarah Manguso quotes: You'll never know what your mother went through.

You'll never know what your mother went through.