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Top 10 Wayne Koestenbaum Quotes (2025 Update)

Wayne Koestenbaum Quote: “I seek for myself the immunity of the diplomatic pouch.”

1. “I seek for myself the immunity of the diplomatic pouch.”

— Wayne Koestenbaum

Wayne Koestenbaum Quote: “I was not thinking about the world. I was not thinking about history. I was thinking about my body’s small, precise, limited, hungry movement forward into the future that seemed at every instant on the verge of being shut down.”

2. “I was not thinking about the world. I was not thinking about history. I was thinking about my body’s small, precise, limited, hungry movement forward into the future that seemed at every instant on the verge of being shut down.”

— Wayne Koestenbaum

Wayne Koestenbaum Quote: “Yes to fingerfucking the dialectic! Or to using the dialectic as a method of fingerfucking the binary!”

3. “Yes to fingerfucking the dialectic! Or to using the dialectic as a method of fingerfucking the binary!”

— Wayne Koestenbaum

Wayne Koestenbaum Quote: “How frequently do you look in the mirror? Does your face please you? Are you disgusted to detect familial features? Do you worship or hate your ancestors? Do you consider your image erotic? Do you pretend that you are a star’s child? If you squint, does your reflection become abstract? Is abstraction a transcendental escape from identity or a psychotic spasm of depersonalization?”

4. “How frequently do you look in the mirror? Does your face please you? Are you disgusted to detect familial features? Do you worship or hate your ancestors? Do you consider your image erotic? Do you pretend that you are a star’s child? If you squint, does your reflection become abstract? Is abstraction a transcendental escape from identity or a psychotic spasm of depersonalization?”

— Wayne Koestenbaum

Wayne Koestenbaum Quote: “If you care about words you learn quite early in life that it is evil to lie.”

5. “If you care about words you learn quite early in life that it is evil to lie.”

— Wayne Koestenbaum

Wayne Koestenbaum Quote: “The solitary operatic feast, the banquet for one, onanism through the ear: taking an evening out of my life to listen to Simon Boccanegra, I feel I am locked in the bathroom eating a quart of ice cream, that I have lost all my friends, that I am committing some violently antisocial act, like wearing lipstick to school.”

6. “The solitary operatic feast, the banquet for one, onanism through the ear: taking an evening out of my life to listen to Simon Boccanegra, I feel I am locked in the bathroom eating a quart of ice cream, that I have lost all my friends, that I am committing some violently antisocial act, like wearing lipstick to school.”

— Wayne Koestenbaum

Wayne Koestenbaum Quote: “Half the urge to write is the premonition that later the thought I am having might disappear so I had better write it down while I still have the inclination, however overshadowed this desire is by indolence.”

7. “Half the urge to write is the premonition that later the thought I am having might disappear so I had better write it down while I still have the inclination, however overshadowed this desire is by indolence.”

— Wayne Koestenbaum

Wayne Koestenbaum Quote: “I mention Jackie mostly because I want to be assured that I inhabit the same universe as other people; that I am not alone on a distant shore. Jackie glues me to this world – most effectively when I can find a way to mention her name or her attributes, when I can find a pretext, however frail, to introduce her into a conversation, even at the risk of non sequitur, bathos, or incoherence.”

8. “I mention Jackie mostly because I want to be assured that I inhabit the same universe as other people; that I am not alone on a distant shore. Jackie glues me to this world – most effectively when I can find a way to mention her name or her attributes, when I can find a pretext, however frail, to introduce her into a conversation, even at the risk of non sequitur, bathos, or incoherence.”

— Wayne Koestenbaum

Wayne Koestenbaum Quote: “She would tell me parts of her story, but they never added up, and, intoxicated, I probed no further. I was grateful that Moira Orfei was endless, and that she never told me the true story of her difficult life.”

9. “She would tell me parts of her story, but they never added up, and, intoxicated, I probed no further. I was grateful that Moira Orfei was endless, and that she never told me the true story of her difficult life.”

— Wayne Koestenbaum

Wayne Koestenbaum Quote: “Prose divides shame into stations.”

10. “Prose divides shame into stations.”

— Wayne Koestenbaum

Wayne Koestenbaum Quote: “The poetic line, a grave and timeless portal, requires a very simple password.”

11. “The poetic line, a grave and timeless portal, requires a very simple password.”

— Wayne Koestenbaum

Wayne Koestenbaum Quote: “Later I will systemize my impossible subject, but for the moment I want to enjoy a tentative movement between its different chambers. I am not certain which are important and which are extraneous. Nor am I certain whether this topic is one that I have the strength to pursue.”

12. “Later I will systemize my impossible subject, but for the moment I want to enjoy a tentative movement between its different chambers. I am not certain which are important and which are extraneous. Nor am I certain whether this topic is one that I have the strength to pursue.”

— Wayne Koestenbaum

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