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.”
-- Sarah MangusoSource : Sarah Manguso (2011). “The Two Kinds of Decay”, p.183, Granta
-
“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 MangusoSource : Sarah Manguso (2011). “The Two Kinds of Decay”, p.49, Granta
-
“You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness into brightness.”
-- Sarah MangusoSource : Sarah Manguso (2009). “The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir”, p.191, Macmillan
-
“Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us - by taking everything”
-- Sarah Manguso -
-
“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 -
“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 -
“I like people who possess either deep mastery or deep empathy, but not as much as I like those who possess both.”
-- Sarah MangusoSource : Sarah Manguso (2012). “The Guardians: An Elegy”, p.37, Granta Books
-
“The catalog of emotion that disappears when someone dies, and the degree to which we rely on a few people to record something of what life was to them, is almost too much to bear.”
-- Sarah MangusoSource : "Sarah Manguso: 'My diary-keeping is a vice'" by Michelle Dean, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2015.
-
-
“This is suffering's lesson: pay attention. The important part might come in a form you do not recognize.”
-- Sarah MangusoSource : Sarah Manguso (2011). “The Two Kinds of Decay”, p.183, Granta
-
“Look at me, dancing my little dance for a few moments against the background of eternity.”
-- Sarah Manguso -
“Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing.”
-- Sarah MangusoSource : "Ongoingness: The End of a Diary". Book by Sarah Manguso, March 03, 2015.
-
“My existence shrank from an arrow of light pointing into the future forever to a speck of light that was the present moment. I got better at living in that point of light, making the world into that point. I paid close attention to it. I loved it very much.”
-- Sarah MangusoSource : Sarah Manguso (2011). “The Two Kinds of Decay”, p.165, Granta
-
-
“If you think something's happened quickly, you're looking at only a part of it.”
-- Sarah MangusoSource : Sarah Manguso (2011). “The Two Kinds of Decay”, p.182, Granta
-
“Around you move many seas. It is impossible not to drown a little.”
-- Sarah MangusoSource : Sarah Manguso (2002). “The Captain Lands in Paradise: Poems”
You may also like:
-
Dani Shapiro
Author -
David Shields
Author -
Davy Rothbart
Author -
Deb Olin Unferth
Short story writer -
Eula Biss
Fiction writer -
Kevin Barry
Writer -
Linh Dinh
Poet -
Mary Szybist
Poet -
Matthea Harvey
Poet -
Rivka Galchen
Writer -
Sheila Heti
Writer -
Tao Lin
Novelist -
Zbigniew Herbert
Poet -
Edan Lepucki
Novelist -
Maud Newton
Writer -
Meghan O'Rourke
Poet -
Rachel Zucker
Poet