Sheila Heti famous quotes

04-23-2025

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.
-- Sheila Heti

#Writing #Mind #Way
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 usually a pleasant pillow of time between imagining you can, and realizing you cannot.
-- Sheila Heti

#Thinking #Work Out #Satisfaction
One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.
-- Sheila Heti

#Women #Genius #Example
Then if he's sore with me, let him dump my ass. That will just give me more time to be a genius.
-- Sheila Heti

#Women #Giving #Genius
To go on and on about your soul is to miss the whole point of life. I could say that with more certainty if I knew the whole point of life.
-- Sheila Heti

#Missing #Soul #Goes On
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.
-- Sheila Heti

#Christian #Jesus #Brother
I always had a fantasy of meeting a girl who was as serious as I was.
-- Sheila Heti

#Girl #Serious #Fantasy
We don't know the effects we have on each other, but we have them.
-- Sheila Heti
Somehow I had turned myself into the worst thing in the world: I was just another man who wanted to teach me something!
-- Sheila Heti

#Men #World #Worst
There are certain people who do not feel like they were raised by wolves, and they are the ones who make the world tick. They are the ones who keep everything functioning so the rest of us can worry about what sort of person we should be.
-- Sheila Heti

#Worry #People #World
We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.
-- Sheila Heti

#Men #Waste #Bores
You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.
-- Sheila Heti
Heâ€™s just another man who wants to teach me something.
-- Sheila Heti

#Men #Want #Teach
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 hold dear. The others fade from your life entirely. You wanted them, but they did not want you in return.
-- Sheila Heti

#Long #Important #Want

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