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Top 20 Norman Rush Quotes (2025 Update)

Norman Rush Quote: “Literature is humanity talking to itself.”

1. “Literature is humanity talking to itself.”

— Norman Rush

Norman Rush Quote: “Small breasts are best for the long haul.”

2. “Small breasts are best for the long haul.”

— Norman Rush

Norman Rush Quote: “It was a standard fantasy when you fell in love to imagine you could go back in time and find your beloved growing up, appear there, save him or her, get together as adolescents, by magic, and go on together, fighting for one another, into old age, never wavering.”

3. “It was a standard fantasy when you fell in love to imagine you could go back in time and find your beloved growing up, appear there, save him or her, get together as adolescents, by magic, and go on together, fighting for one another, into old age, never wavering.”

— Norman Rush

Norman Rush Quote: “What a datum! I couldn’t help thinking over and over.”

4. “What a datum! I couldn’t help thinking over and over.”

— Norman Rush

Norman Rush Quote: “I wanted to incorporate everything, understand everything, because time is cruel and nothing stays the same.”

5. “I wanted to incorporate everything, understand everything, because time is cruel and nothing stays the same.”

— Norman Rush

Norman Rush Quote: “One thing you distinctly never want to hear a man you’re interested in say softly is that his favorite book in the whole world is The Golden Notebook. Here you are dealing with a liar from the black lagoon and it’s time to start feeling in your purse for carfare.”

6. “One thing you distinctly never want to hear a man you’re interested in say softly is that his favorite book in the whole world is The Golden Notebook. Here you are dealing with a liar from the black lagoon and it’s time to start feeling in your purse for carfare.”

— Norman Rush

Norman Rush Quote: “I feel like someone after a deluge being asked to describe the way it was before the flood while I’m still plucking seaweed out of my hair.”

7. “I feel like someone after a deluge being asked to describe the way it was before the flood while I’m still plucking seaweed out of my hair.”

— Norman Rush

Norman Rush Quote: “Very goodlooking people are as a rule more forgetful than the median. Their mothers start it and the world at large continues it, handing them things, picking things up for them, smoothing their vicinity out for them in every way. I on the other hand remember everything.”

8. “Very goodlooking people are as a rule more forgetful than the median. Their mothers start it and the world at large continues it, handing them things, picking things up for them, smoothing their vicinity out for them in every way. I on the other hand remember everything.”

— Norman Rush

Norman Rush Quote: “What I was suddenly afraid of was our perihelion, the closest we would ever approach or be, and that everything after this would transpire between bodies farther apart. I was thinking that if you looked back over the trajectory of every mating once it was over, there would be an identifiable perihelion.”

9. “What I was suddenly afraid of was our perihelion, the closest we would ever approach or be, and that everything after this would transpire between bodies farther apart. I was thinking that if you looked back over the trajectory of every mating once it was over, there would be an identifiable perihelion.”

— Norman Rush

Norman Rush Quote: “I must love big novels, because that’s what I’ve written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.”

10. “I must love big novels, because that’s what I’ve written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.”

— Norman Rush

Norman Rush Quote: “This shooting star had apparently been sedentarized in my bailiwick-so, good.”

11. “This shooting star had apparently been sedentarized in my bailiwick-so, good.”

— Norman Rush

Norman Rush Quote: “In love and mating, ambience is central.”

12. “In love and mating, ambience is central.”

— Norman Rush

Norman Rush Quote: “He would say only slightly facetiously that the main effort of arranging your life should be to progressively reduce the amount of time required to decently maintain yourself so that you can have all the time you want for reading.”

13. “He would say only slightly facetiously that the main effort of arranging your life should be to progressively reduce the amount of time required to decently maintain yourself so that you can have all the time you want for reading.”

— Norman Rush

Norman Rush Quote: “It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live.”

14. “It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live.”

— Norman Rush

Norman Rush Quote: “There is no permanent friendship between men, among men. Something goes wrong, somebody marries the wrong person, somebody advances too fast, somebody converts, somebody refuses good advice or bad advice, it didn’t matter. It went up in a flash.”

15. “There is no permanent friendship between men, among men. Something goes wrong, somebody marries the wrong person, somebody advances too fast, somebody converts, somebody refuses good advice or bad advice, it didn’t matter. It went up in a flash.”

— Norman Rush

Norman Rush Quote: “You could be the first nation to tell your children to ask themselves what work in the world would most become their souls and to prepare to do it.”

16. “You could be the first nation to tell your children to ask themselves what work in the world would most become their souls and to prepare to do it.”

— Norman Rush

Norman Rush Quote: “Nina said, “Have regular facial expressions.” That was a command from their inventory of facetious devices they used to josh one another out of bad moods.”

17. “Nina said, “Have regular facial expressions.” That was a command from their inventory of facetious devices they used to josh one another out of bad moods.”

— Norman Rush

Norman Rush Quote: “The characters write the plot. Their natures do.”

18. “The characters write the plot. Their natures do.”

— Norman Rush

Norman Rush Quote: “One attractive thing about me is that I’m never bored, because during any caesura my personal automatic pastime of questioning my own motives is there for me.”

19. “One attractive thing about me is that I’m never bored, because during any caesura my personal automatic pastime of questioning my own motives is there for me.”

— Norman Rush

Norman Rush Quote: “Ah good, I thought, another thesis topic although unfortunately not in my field, id est proving that women are almost invariably the appeasers when fights occur that lead to stalemates.”

20. “Ah good, I thought, another thesis topic although unfortunately not in my field, id est proving that women are almost invariably the appeasers when fights occur that lead to stalemates.”

— Norman Rush

Norman Rush Quote: “Causing active ongoing pleasure in your mate is something people tend to restrict to the sexual realm or getting attractive food on the table on time, but keeping permanent intimate comedy going is more important than any other one thing.”

21. “Causing active ongoing pleasure in your mate is something people tend to restrict to the sexual realm or getting attractive food on the table on time, but keeping permanent intimate comedy going is more important than any other one thing.”

— Norman Rush

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