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There was no one to call me to bed, no one to demand that the rhythms of my life operate in a duet.
Nicole Krauss
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Nicole Krauss
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: August 18
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Only later did I come to understand that to be a mother is to be an illusion. No matter how vigilant, in the end a mother can't protect her child - not from pain, or horror, or the nightmare of violence, from sealed trains moving rapidly in the wrong direction, the depravity of strangers, trapdoors, abysses, fires, cars in the rain, from chance.
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The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.
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The fact that you got a little happier today doesn't change the fact that you also became a little sadder. Every day you become a little more of both, which means that right now, at this exact moment, you're the happiest and saddest you've ever been in your whole life.
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And so he did the hardest thing he’d ever done in his life: he picked up his hat and walked away.
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I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade ago.
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Sometimes I forget that the world is not on the same schedule as I. That everything is not dying, or that if it is dying it will return to life, what with a little sun and the usual encouragement.
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I have a very strong sense of architecture in my novels. But at first it's sometimes like building a doorknob before you have a door, and a door before you have a room.
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One is always changing. I don't want to write the same book and I couldn't, because I'm a different person.
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