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I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs.

Rachel Cusk

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Rachel Cusk
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: January 1
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Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
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Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.
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A sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is a question of the subtlest possible adjustments, a process of intuition to which exaggeration and force are fatal.
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The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is turgid and stale in contemporary fiction.
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A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.
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Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
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I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.
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Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.
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Divorce also entails the beginning of a supposition that that familial reality might have obstructed one's ability to perceive others.
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I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed in that Catholic mould that I don't think I could adopt any other form of spirituality. I still get feelings of consolation about churches.
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Modern morality is all about perception.
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If love is what is held to make us immortal, hatred is the reverse.
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An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.
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Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.
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The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched by it. In both cases, I've coped artistically by believing the criticisms weren't right. They upset me, but they didn't challenge my understanding of how to write, nor of how morality functions in literature.
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Reality might be described as the eternal equipoise of positive and negative.
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Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.
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I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.
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Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
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