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Top 20 Rivka Galchen Quotes (2025 Update)

Rivka Galchen Quote: “But one day I woke up and heard myself saying, I am a fork being used to eat cereal. I am not a spoon. I am a fork. And I can’t help people eat cereal any longer.”

1. “But one day I woke up and heard myself saying, I am a fork being used to eat cereal. I am not a spoon. I am a fork. And I can’t help people eat cereal any longer.”

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Rivka Galchen Quote: “Memento mori – remember that you must die – is a worthy and necessary message for ordinary times when you might forget. Memento vivere – remember that you must live – is the message of “The Decameron.”

2. “Memento mori – remember that you must die – is a worthy and necessary message for ordinary times when you might forget. Memento vivere – remember that you must live – is the message of “The Decameron.”

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Rivka Galchen Quote: “If a story seems too random, or perhaps too brilliant, for a “madman” to have conceived of it himself, then consider that the “author” might be reality and the “madman” just the reader. After all, only reality can escape the limits of our imagination.”

3. “If a story seems too random, or perhaps too brilliant, for a “madman” to have conceived of it himself, then consider that the “author” might be reality and the “madman” just the reader. After all, only reality can escape the limits of our imagination.”

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Rivka Galchen Quote: “We need to develop a better descriptive vocabulary for lying, a taxonomy, a way to distinguish intentional lies from unintentional ones, and a way to distinguish the lies that the liar himself believes in-a way to signal those lies that could more accurately be understood as dreams.”

4. “We need to develop a better descriptive vocabulary for lying, a taxonomy, a way to distinguish intentional lies from unintentional ones, and a way to distinguish the lies that the liar himself believes in-a way to signal those lies that could more accurately be understood as dreams.”

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Rivka Galchen Quote: “I’ve always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions.”

5. “I’ve always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions.”

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Rivka Galchen Quote: “It’s important to avoid mirrors if one is unprepared to accept their daily news, and I think, in something as insignificantly devastating as appearance, denial is more socially constructive than despondency. Not that there’s anything especially wrong with me – just the usual.”

6. “It’s important to avoid mirrors if one is unprepared to accept their daily news, and I think, in something as insignificantly devastating as appearance, denial is more socially constructive than despondency. Not that there’s anything especially wrong with me – just the usual.”

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Rivka Galchen Quote: “He was my first love, my first love in the way that first loves are usually second or third or fourth loves. I still think about a stranger in a green jacket across from me in the waiting room at the DMV. About a blue-eyed man with a singed earlobe that I saw at a Baskin-Robbins with his daughter. My first that kind of love. I never got over him. I never get over anyone.”

7. “He was my first love, my first love in the way that first loves are usually second or third or fourth loves. I still think about a stranger in a green jacket across from me in the waiting room at the DMV. About a blue-eyed man with a singed earlobe that I saw at a Baskin-Robbins with his daughter. My first that kind of love. I never got over him. I never get over anyone.”

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Rivka Galchen Quote: “He is my unicorn, though... That’s how I felt falling in love with him, as if I’d found a creature of myth.”

8. “He is my unicorn, though... That’s how I felt falling in love with him, as if I’d found a creature of myth.”

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Rivka Galchen Quote: “Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.”

9. “Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.”

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Rivka Galchen Quote: “Sometimes failing is what’s needed. I think it can put people in a good mood, to see someone fail. Let people entertain themselves. I think that’s one of the reasons people are so lonely in this country. Because they always have to rush out and have someone else in the room entertain them. It’s terrible, the loneliness here. People live in coffins...”

10. “Sometimes failing is what’s needed. I think it can put people in a good mood, to see someone fail. Let people entertain themselves. I think that’s one of the reasons people are so lonely in this country. Because they always have to rush out and have someone else in the room entertain them. It’s terrible, the loneliness here. People live in coffins...”

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Rivka Galchen Quote: “It’s true what they say, that a baby gives you a reason to live. But also, a baby is a reason that it is not permissible to die. There are days when this does not feel good.”

11. “It’s true what they say, that a baby gives you a reason to live. But also, a baby is a reason that it is not permissible to die. There are days when this does not feel good.”

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Rivka Galchen Quote: “The room was too much there. I could feel the color of the wallpaper – burgundy – invading.”

12. “The room was too much there. I could feel the color of the wallpaper – burgundy – invading.”

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Rivka Galchen Quote: “The magnificently humble. The enormously small. The meaningfully ridiculous. Robert Walser’s work often reads like a dazzling answer to the question, How immense can modesty be?”

13. “The magnificently humble. The enormously small. The meaningfully ridiculous. Robert Walser’s work often reads like a dazzling answer to the question, How immense can modesty be?”

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Rivka Galchen Quote: “Now it seems there are many more varieties of ‘normal’ family.”

14. “Now it seems there are many more varieties of ‘normal’ family.”

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Rivka Galchen Quote: “I had considered envying men before – I pretend to envy things like their higher incidence of ungrounded confidence and monomania – but I don’t really envy those things, and I’m not sure I even believe in them – but this, the covert-baby-having thing, was the first real thing.”

15. “I had considered envying men before – I pretend to envy things like their higher incidence of ungrounded confidence and monomania – but I don’t really envy those things, and I’m not sure I even believe in them – but this, the covert-baby-having thing, was the first real thing.”

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Rivka Galchen Quote: “You’ll never get over Ilan. And that will one day horrify you. But soon enough you’ll settle on a replacement object for all that love of yours, which does you about as much good as a life jacket in a train wreck.”

16. “You’ll never get over Ilan. And that will one day horrify you. But soon enough you’ll settle on a replacement object for all that love of yours, which does you about as much good as a life jacket in a train wreck.”

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Rivka Galchen Quote: “Books for young children rarely feature children. They feature animals, or monsters, or, occasionally, children behaving like animals or monsters. Books for adults almost invariably feature adults.”

17. “Books for young children rarely feature children. They feature animals, or monsters, or, occasionally, children behaving like animals or monsters. Books for adults almost invariably feature adults.”

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Rivka Galchen Quote: “I’m not one of these people who are disheartened that the universe is expanding. But as news and data breed and the crowded channels grow ever noisier, I do feel that the space is ever increasing between me and it, whatever it might be.”

18. “I’m not one of these people who are disheartened that the universe is expanding. But as news and data breed and the crowded channels grow ever noisier, I do feel that the space is ever increasing between me and it, whatever it might be.”

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Rivka Galchen Quote: “The strawberry sets its seeds on the outside, for all to see. A strawberry has nothing to hide.”

19. “The strawberry sets its seeds on the outside, for all to see. A strawberry has nothing to hide.”

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Rivka Galchen Quote: “That’s what life is: a bunch of thorns, and a berry.”

20. “That’s what life is: a bunch of thorns, and a berry.”

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Rivka Galchen Quote: “You can’t discover what’s true based on how many people think it’s true.”

21. “You can’t discover what’s true based on how many people think it’s true.”

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Rivka Galchen Quote: “She didn’t have what one would call a “profession,” but I didn’t know why she particularly wanted one; it seemed like she’d been infected by a very American idea of identity, to think that who you were mostly consisted of what you did to get paid – that seemed silly to me.”

22. “She didn’t have what one would call a “profession,” but I didn’t know why she particularly wanted one; it seemed like she’d been infected by a very American idea of identity, to think that who you were mostly consisted of what you did to get paid – that seemed silly to me.”

— Rivka Galchen

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