I was funny -- ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless. I was funny, in public, most often at my own expense.
Anyway, these books I love, they’re all books by men—every last one of them. Because if it’s unseemly and possibly dangerous for a man to be angry, i… - Claire Messud
Anyway, these books I love, they’re all books by men—every last one of them. Because if it’s unseemly and possibly dangerous for a man to be angry, i…
- Claire Messud
Above all, in my anger, I was sad. Isn't that always the way, that at the heart of the fire is a frozen kernel of sorrow that the fire is trying -- v… - Claire Messud
Above all, in my anger, I was sad. Isn't that always the way, that at the heart of the fire is a frozen kernel of sorrow that the fire is trying -- v…
Life's funny. You have to find a way to keep going, to keep laughing, even after you realize that none of your dreams will come true. When you realiz… - Claire Messud
Life's funny. You have to find a way to keep going, to keep laughing, even after you realize that none of your dreams will come true. When you realiz…
Geniuses have the shortest biographies. - Claire Messud
Geniuses have the shortest biographies.
I've discovered over the years that the simplest explanation is almost always the right one; and that hunger of one kind or another - desire, by anot… - Claire Messud
I've discovered over the years that the simplest explanation is almost always the right one; and that hunger of one kind or another - desire, by anot…
If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble. We read to find life, in all its possibilities. The relevant question isn’t ‘Is this a pot… - Claire Messud
If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble. We read to find life, in all its possibilities. The relevant question isn’t ‘Is this a pot…
That's so her. You know, torn between Big Ideas and a party. She's always been that way. - Claire Messud
That's so her. You know, torn between Big Ideas and a party. She's always been that way.
The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art. - Claire Messud
The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.
Does Being Happy simply Create More Time, in the way that Being Sad, as we all know, slows time and thickens it, like cornstarch in a sauce?). - Claire Messud
Does Being Happy simply Create More Time, in the way that Being Sad, as we all know, slows time and thickens it, like cornstarch in a sauce?).
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