I hadn't realized until this week that in [Moses'] youth he killed a man, an Egyptian, and buried him under some sandI used to worry that I wasn't enough like Jesus, but yesterday I remembered who was my king; a man who, when God addressed him and told him to lead the people out of Egypt, said, 'But I'm not a good talker! Couldn't you ask my brother instead?' So it should not be so hard to come at this life with a bit of honesty. I don't need to be great like the leader of the Christian people. I can be a bumbling, murderous coward like the King of the Jews.
I hadn't realized until this week that in [Moses'] youth he killed a man, an Egyptian, and buried him under some sandI used to worry that I wasn't en… - Sheila Heti
I hadn't realized until this week that in [Moses'] youth he killed a man, an Egyptian, and buried him under some sandI used to worry that I wasn't en…
- Sheila Heti
It has long been known to me that certain objects want you as much as you want them. These are the ones that become important, the objects that you h… - Sheila Heti
It has long been known to me that certain objects want you as much as you want them. These are the ones that become important, the objects that you h…
I spend most of my time in my head. You can always work out solutions and satisfactions there. Maybe you can't actually bring them about, but there's… - Sheila Heti
I spend most of my time in my head. You can always work out solutions and satisfactions there. Maybe you can't actually bring them about, but there's…
You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything. - Sheila Heti
You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.
I kind of try to resist working a lot. I'm not a very disciplined worker. - Sheila Heti
I kind of try to resist working a lot. I'm not a very disciplined worker.
Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives. - Sheila Heti
Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.
I do feel it. And I've felt it my whole life, that the supernatural has a role in the world. - Sheila Heti
I do feel it. And I've felt it my whole life, that the supernatural has a role in the world.
I'm in a serious monogamous relationship, and I don't want to keep having different boyfriends, and I have this instead - with men and women. It's be… - Sheila Heti
I'm in a serious monogamous relationship, and I don't want to keep having different boyfriends, and I have this instead - with men and women. It's be…
Literature and art are one of a number of relationships I have with the world. Like you have relationships with your friends and a relationship with … - Sheila Heti
Literature and art are one of a number of relationships I have with the world. Like you have relationships with your friends and a relationship with …
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