Showing posts with label Straus & Giroux. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Straus & Giroux. Show all posts

 

"We paid money to go on living in the same way that one once paid health insurance, we bought the commodity called survival, and according to all existing contracts no one has the right to take it from us or make demands upon it."

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Termush by Sven Holm

 

"No human, however powerful, is spared confrontation with the limits of their own power, with those realms, in the words of Hannah Arendt, 'in which men cannot change and cannot act and in which, therefore, he has a distinct tendency to destroy.'"

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On Violence and On Violence Against Women by Jacqueline Rose

 

"But I have always been helped in my relations with people by the realization that they are not very happy. Objects are not very happy either; that is what makes us feel friendly toward them."

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Alexis by Marguerite Yourcenar

 

"I repeat: meditation is everything that happens inside you during the time when you're seated, silent and motionless. Boredom is meditation. The pains in your knees, back, and neck are meditation. The rumbling of your stomach is meditation. The feeling that you're wasting your time with bogus spirituality is meditation."

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Yoga by Emmanuel Carrère

 

"I had asked Hercules for nothing, and got more than I bargained for. If I had to think about it I had "won.""

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100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell

 

"As Whitman wrote in The Sleepers: 'Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.'"

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The Undying by Anne Boyer

"...'Princess Margaret is a strange lady, pretty, tough, disillusioned and spoilt.'"
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Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown

"Twenty minutes for stories and milk on the couch, although Honey is increasingly reluctant to sit through an entire story now, even the ones she loves, and begins rifling through the pages faster and faster until I can't even rapidly paraphrase the illustration. I hope she is not hyperactive requiring treatment."
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The Golden State by Lydia Kiesling


Quoting Rilke's "Ninth Elegy":
But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all. Once for each thing. Just once; no more. And we too, Just once. And never again.
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This Close to Happy by Daphne Merkin

"Or else: I stubbornly choose not to choose; I choose drifting: I continue."
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A Lover's Discourse by Roland Barthes

 
"...if you feel sure you will never make it and were not cut out to do this, if your prose seems stillborn and you completely lack confidence, you must be a writer."
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Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process by John McPhee

"It's not something Freud considers, the possibility that such resistance might actually have been exactly what it looks like: an aversion to the analytic situation, with its imbalance of power, its detached and disinterested analyst, its required performance of colossal mistakes, its falseness and its theatrical repetition of the past, and that such resistance might make some sense, in a room where the patient's sexuality or gender is treated as something to overcome."
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The Selfishness of Others: An Essay on the Fear of Narcissism by Kristin Dombek


"The tall redhead, and the other with the hunchback, deliver their final blow. Then suddenly they would leave, already talking about something else. Banal, everyday talk -- and noticing that detail hurt me even more: I mattered less to them than they mattered to me. I devoted all my thoughts to them, all my anguish, from the moment I woke up. Their ability to forget me so quickly hurt."
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The End of Eddy by Edouard Louis

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