Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I guess I think that sex and desire and humiliation are central to my experience of consciousness - to my experience of humanness - and I wanted to explore the ways that they circle around and approach and fail to add up to love, or the ways that those three terms - sex, desire, love - can in some lights seem synonymous and in others like elements entirely alien to one another.

Garth Greenwell's Popular Quotes

My first MFA was in poetry, and it was very much part of a professional trajectory leading to life as a professor. But in my second and third years a…

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I do think that the sense of being opposed to the present moment, that sense of the rub of history, invigorates the writing I find most exciting, and…

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I'm not sure any narrative model has been more important for me than Benjamin Britten's chamber operas.

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I think it's harder to avoid reflection on those larger patterns of history or society when they so insistently call into question your right to exis…

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When I took my first poetry class, I felt that I could understand the relationships between words and the formal qualities of language in a way I wou…

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I felt a lot of ambivalence about going back to graduate school for a second MFA. The impulse was really the opposite from what it had been more than…

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Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can do.

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I'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography.

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There are lots of big books that have gay characters - or, more commonly, a gay character - in secondary roles, but seldom are their lives, and espec…

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