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Top 25 Alexis Schaitkin Quotes (2024 Update)

Alexis Schaitkin Quote: “When a person you love dies, the calendar becomes a minefield. Anyone who has lost someone knows this. There is the loved one’s birthday. One’s own Birthday. Various national and religious holidays, if one is religious. All of these days are difficult in their own ways. But the anniversary is different. On the anniversary of the loved one’s death, you slip backward through time to this same day, one, five, ten years ago. You live it all over again, minute by minute.”

1. “When a person you love dies, the calendar becomes a minefield. Anyone who has lost someone knows this. There is the loved one’s birthday. One’s own Birthday. Various national and religious holidays, if one is religious. All of these days are difficult in their own ways. But the anniversary is different. On the anniversary of the loved one’s death, you slip backward through time to this same day, one, five, ten years ago. You live it all over again, minute by minute.”

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Alexis Schaitkin Quote: “For so long it was all I wanted. The truth! The truth! Good, fine, but for what? With the truth we will do what, become what? And in gaining the truth, what do we lose? It seems to me now that some truths will never be enough to seal the mysteries that precede them. I think in her own way my mother understood this all along – that there is nothing the truth can give you that you cannot give yourself. That in the end, you just have to decide. To live. To continue.”

2. “For so long it was all I wanted. The truth! The truth! Good, fine, but for what? With the truth we will do what, become what? And in gaining the truth, what do we lose? It seems to me now that some truths will never be enough to seal the mysteries that precede them. I think in her own way my mother understood this all along – that there is nothing the truth can give you that you cannot give yourself. That in the end, you just have to decide. To live. To continue.”

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Alexis Schaitkin Quote: “Here’s some words of wisdom for you: Don’t ever try to out-talk a woman. They store the right language up so it’s ready to throw down when the time comes.”

3. “Here’s some words of wisdom for you: Don’t ever try to out-talk a woman. They store the right language up so it’s ready to throw down when the time comes.”

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Alexis Schaitkin Quote: “She was what all the dead are: whatever the living make them.”

4. “She was what all the dead are: whatever the living make them.”

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Alexis Schaitkin Quote: “These resorts often have an obsession with white. White buildings, white floors, white linens, white uniforms. Like they’re trying to convince you you’ve died and gone to heaven, or like you’ve arrived at some hedonistic sanatorium because you’re afflicted by something and you didn’t even know it but now you will heal.”

5. “These resorts often have an obsession with white. White buildings, white floors, white linens, white uniforms. Like they’re trying to convince you you’ve died and gone to heaven, or like you’ve arrived at some hedonistic sanatorium because you’re afflicted by something and you didn’t even know it but now you will heal.”

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Alexis Schaitkin Quote: “Nobody likes a snob, but everybody likes the discernment that allows for snobbery.”

6. “Nobody likes a snob, but everybody likes the discernment that allows for snobbery.”

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Alexis Schaitkin Quote: “Don’t you understand? My sister was an innocent, blameless in her horrific fate. And it was all her fault.”

7. “Don’t you understand? My sister was an innocent, blameless in her horrific fate. And it was all her fault.”

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Alexis Schaitkin Quote: “Here’s the thing about women: If the world was only women, there wouldn’t be language at all. They don’t need it.”

8. “Here’s the thing about women: If the world was only women, there wouldn’t be language at all. They don’t need it.”

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Alexis Schaitkin Quote: “To mourn a girl with infinite futures was to mourn infinitely.”

9. “To mourn a girl with infinite futures was to mourn infinitely.”

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Alexis Schaitkin Quote: “Each of our lives is anchored to a single moment, whether disturbing or traumatic or euphoric or inscrutable, from which we never move on, and that the age at which this moment occurs is our Eternal Age.”

10. “Each of our lives is anchored to a single moment, whether disturbing or traumatic or euphoric or inscrutable, from which we never move on, and that the age at which this moment occurs is our Eternal Age.”

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Alexis Schaitkin Quote: “Stories lead us to the truth and they lead us astray, and how are we to know the difference?”

11. “Stories lead us to the truth and they lead us astray, and how are we to know the difference?”

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Alexis Schaitkin Quote: “He didn’t understand that a mother and daughter cannot be protected from one another, that the harms that pass between them cannot be mitigated because they are also expressions of love.”

12. “He didn’t understand that a mother and daughter cannot be protected from one another, that the harms that pass between them cannot be mitigated because they are also expressions of love.”

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Alexis Schaitkin Quote: “We don’t know what people look like. We know only what they look like to us. We have an idea of them, shaped by our affections, our memories, and this is the real distortion.”

13. “We don’t know what people look like. We know only what they look like to us. We have an idea of them, shaped by our affections, our memories, and this is the real distortion.”

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Alexis Schaitkin Quote: “You want to know the secret of life? You will never be they. They is always someone else.”

14. “You want to know the secret of life? You will never be they. They is always someone else.”

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Alexis Schaitkin Quote: “I saw then that he was drawn not just to me, but also to the dark potential all women in our town carried inside us, and I was startled to realize he feared me a little. I began to know what women here had always known: We were endangered, but we were dangerous, too; our peril was also our power.”

15. “I saw then that he was drawn not just to me, but also to the dark potential all women in our town carried inside us, and I was startled to realize he feared me a little. I began to know what women here had always known: We were endangered, but we were dangerous, too; our peril was also our power.”

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Alexis Schaitkin Quote: “People did not forget, but they might decide, eventually, that they no longer cared.”

16. “People did not forget, but they might decide, eventually, that they no longer cared.”

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Alexis Schaitkin Quote: “You know how sometimes the world just rips open and you find yourself in a moment that is totally sacred?”

17. “You know how sometimes the world just rips open and you find yourself in a moment that is totally sacred?”

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Alexis Schaitkin Quote: “Whether they realized it or not, these boys were in love with some idea of me as a tragic, wounded girl, that when they looked at me they saw a sort of double exposure – me and the sister I had lost, a second self whose presence they could sense whenever they were with me, and that it was she, not me, they were really after, that as they kissed and licked and squeezed me they were trying to draw themselves closer to her, to touch the infinite, exquisite void of a beautiful, lost girl.”

18. “Whether they realized it or not, these boys were in love with some idea of me as a tragic, wounded girl, that when they looked at me they saw a sort of double exposure – me and the sister I had lost, a second self whose presence they could sense whenever they were with me, and that it was she, not me, they were really after, that as they kissed and licked and squeezed me they were trying to draw themselves closer to her, to touch the infinite, exquisite void of a beautiful, lost girl.”

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Alexis Schaitkin Quote: “I feel like there’s this really slippery slope between being glad you have something and thinking you deserve it.”

19. “I feel like there’s this really slippery slope between being glad you have something and thinking you deserve it.”

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Alexis Schaitkin Quote: “We see so little of people. We forget how much submerged darkness there is around us at every moment. We forget until we are forced to remember.”

20. “We see so little of people. We forget how much submerged darkness there is around us at every moment. We forget until we are forced to remember.”

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Alexis Schaitkin Quote: “Difficult, but comforting, the way I suppose one’s own life always feels.”

21. “Difficult, but comforting, the way I suppose one’s own life always feels.”

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Alexis Schaitkin Quote: “Possibilities are everywhere, hidden in the fist of each moment, yet most people don’t see them, or they see them but leave them untouched.”

22. “Possibilities are everywhere, hidden in the fist of each moment, yet most people don’t see them, or they see them but leave them untouched.”

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Alexis Schaitkin Quote: “It is easy to discern the contours of other people’s pain, much harder to recognize one’s own.”

23. “It is easy to discern the contours of other people’s pain, much harder to recognize one’s own.”

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Alexis Schaitkin Quote: “My mother could always be counted on to prattle on about something we both knew neither of us carried about.”

24. “My mother could always be counted on to prattle on about something we both knew neither of us carried about.”

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Alexis Schaitkin Quote: “Maybe part of what it means to be eighteen is to feel perpetually caught between the intensity of one’s desires and the dawning self that judges them.”

25. “Maybe part of what it means to be eighteen is to feel perpetually caught between the intensity of one’s desires and the dawning self that judges them.”

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Alexis Schaitkin Quote: “For, whether we’re aware of it or not, we are always living in the aftermath of something.”

26. “For, whether we’re aware of it or not, we are always living in the aftermath of something.”

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Alexis Schaitkin Quote: “He also registers that in a few places at the resort he routinely catches the whiff of certain unmistakable odors. At the far side of the swimming pool, warm garbage. At the turn in the gravel path that leads from their room to the beach, sewage... he still hasn’t found paradise, not quite. Because, like everywhere else, when you get down to it, it is all just bodies and their manifold wastes and where to put it all, it is all just disorder two days from taking over.”

27. “He also registers that in a few places at the resort he routinely catches the whiff of certain unmistakable odors. At the far side of the swimming pool, warm garbage. At the turn in the gravel path that leads from their room to the beach, sewage... he still hasn’t found paradise, not quite. Because, like everywhere else, when you get down to it, it is all just bodies and their manifold wastes and where to put it all, it is all just disorder two days from taking over.”

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Alexis Schaitkin Quote: “So what is gratitude, really, but reverence for a system that gives and deprives at random? No, not at random. The non-randomness is exactly the point, right?”

28. “So what is gratitude, really, but reverence for a system that gives and deprives at random? No, not at random. The non-randomness is exactly the point, right?”

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Alexis Schaitkin Quote: “I thought how careless of them, how indulgent, to let their children out of their bodies, while I kept mine secreted away inside me, deprived myself of them to keep them safe.”

29. “I thought how careless of them, how indulgent, to let their children out of their bodies, while I kept mine secreted away inside me, deprived myself of them to keep them safe.”

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