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Sigrid Nunez Quote: “When I ask him why he thinks I should have known that he was writing about himself, he looks puzzled and says, Who else would I be writing about?”

51. “When I ask him why he thinks I should have known that he was writing about himself, he looks puzzled and says, Who else would I be writing about?”

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Sigrid Nunez Quote: “No matter how hard we try to put the most important things into words, it is always like toe-dancing in clogs.”

52. “No matter how hard we try to put the most important things into words, it is always like toe-dancing in clogs.”

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Sigrid Nunez Quote: “Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does more than partly compensate people for the damage they have suffered in learning to read. Rebecca West.”

53. “Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does more than partly compensate people for the damage they have suffered in learning to read. Rebecca West.”

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Sigrid Nunez Quote: “On the fate of the multitude of unwanted dogs, Lucy reflects: They do us the honor of treating us like gods, and we respond by treating them like things.”

54. “On the fate of the multitude of unwanted dogs, Lucy reflects: They do us the honor of treating us like gods, and we respond by treating them like things.”

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Sigrid Nunez Quote: “I don’t know who it was, but someone, maybe or maybe not Henry James, said that there are two kinds of people in the world: those who upon seeing someone else suffering think, That could happen to me, and those who think, That will never happen to me. The first kind of people help us to endure, the second kind make life hell.”

55. “I don’t know who it was, but someone, maybe or maybe not Henry James, said that there are two kinds of people in the world: those who upon seeing someone else suffering think, That could happen to me, and those who think, That will never happen to me. The first kind of people help us to endure, the second kind make life hell.”

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Sigrid Nunez Quote: “I believe the intensity of the pity you feel for an animal has to do with how it evokes pity for yourself... Innocence is something we humans pass through and leave behind, unable to return. But animals live and die in that state, and seeing innocence violated in the form of cruelty to a mere duck can seem like the most barbaric act in the world.”

56. “I believe the intensity of the pity you feel for an animal has to do with how it evokes pity for yourself... Innocence is something we humans pass through and leave behind, unable to return. But animals live and die in that state, and seeing innocence violated in the form of cruelty to a mere duck can seem like the most barbaric act in the world.”

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Sigrid Nunez Quote: “George Balanchine said, If you put a group of men on the stage, you have a group of men, but if you put a group of women on the stage you have the whole world.”

57. “George Balanchine said, If you put a group of men on the stage, you have a group of men, but if you put a group of women on the stage you have the whole world.”

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Sigrid Nunez Quote: “I told the shrink: It would not make me happy at all not to miss him anymore. You can’t hurry love, as the song goes. You can’t hurry grief, either.”

58. “I told the shrink: It would not make me happy at all not to miss him anymore. You can’t hurry love, as the song goes. You can’t hurry grief, either.”

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Sigrid Nunez Quote: “Even worse. Making vivid, interesting characters out of those girls and women? Mythologizing and novelizing their suffering? No.” The man gives an exaggerated sigh. “I know this argument, and I don’t buy it. If everyone felt the way you do, the world would remain ignorant about things it has every good reason to know. Writers have to bear witness, it’s their vocation. Some would say the writer has no higher calling than to bear witness to injustice and suffering.”

59. “Even worse. Making vivid, interesting characters out of those girls and women? Mythologizing and novelizing their suffering? No.” The man gives an exaggerated sigh. “I know this argument, and I don’t buy it. If everyone felt the way you do, the world would remain ignorant about things it has every good reason to know. Writers have to bear witness, it’s their vocation. Some would say the writer has no higher calling than to bear witness to injustice and suffering.”

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Sigrid Nunez Quote: “Anthropomorphism, I’ve decided, is inescapable, and though I might try to hide it I no longer fight it.”

60. “Anthropomorphism, I’ve decided, is inescapable, and though I might try to hide it I no longer fight it.”

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Sigrid Nunez Quote: “Losing the memory of the experience itself to the memory of writing about it. Like people whose memories of places they’ve traveled to are in fact only memories of the pictures they took there. In the end, writing and photography probably destroy more of the past than they ever preserve of it. So it could happen: by writing about someone lost – or even just talking too much about them – you might be burying them for good.”

61. “Losing the memory of the experience itself to the memory of writing about it. Like people whose memories of places they’ve traveled to are in fact only memories of the pictures they took there. In the end, writing and photography probably destroy more of the past than they ever preserve of it. So it could happen: by writing about someone lost – or even just talking too much about them – you might be burying them for good.”

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Sigrid Nunez Quote: “Music has charms to soothe a savage breaste is what the playwright William Congreve actually wrote. But it’s part of our mythology: a wild or angry animal calmed or tamed by music. Which makes sense, given all we know about how music can affect the spirits of a human being.”

62. “Music has charms to soothe a savage breaste is what the playwright William Congreve actually wrote. But it’s part of our mythology: a wild or angry animal calmed or tamed by music. Which makes sense, given all we know about how music can affect the spirits of a human being.”

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Sigrid Nunez Quote: “And what the movie makes clear is that, if there really was a Supreme Being who had to listen to people’s prayers all the time, he would go out of his mind.”

63. “And what the movie makes clear is that, if there really was a Supreme Being who had to listen to people’s prayers all the time, he would go out of his mind.”

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Sigrid Nunez Quote: “Dying is a role we play like any other role in life: this is a troubling thought. You are never your true self except when you’re alone – but who wants to be alone, dying?”

64. “Dying is a role we play like any other role in life: this is a troubling thought. You are never your true self except when you’re alone – but who wants to be alone, dying?”

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Sigrid Nunez Quote: “When do people ever like it when you write about them? But I had to do something. As I said, from the minute I heard what had happened I could not stop thinking about it. So I did what you do if you’re a writer and you’re obsessed about something: you turn it into a story that you hope will lay it to rest, or at least help you figure it out what it means. Even if we know from experience that this pretty much never works.”

65. “When do people ever like it when you write about them? But I had to do something. As I said, from the minute I heard what had happened I could not stop thinking about it. So I did what you do if you’re a writer and you’re obsessed about something: you turn it into a story that you hope will lay it to rest, or at least help you figure it out what it means. Even if we know from experience that this pretty much never works.”

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Sigrid Nunez Quote: “I just read a review of a book about some lab worker who purposely unleashes a pandemic flu virus in the hopes of killing enough humans to save the environment.”

66. “I just read a review of a book about some lab worker who purposely unleashes a pandemic flu virus in the hopes of killing enough humans to save the environment.”

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Sigrid Nunez Quote: “Find the right tone and you can write about anything.”

67. “Find the right tone and you can write about anything.”

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