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Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it.
Rachel Kushner
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Rachel Kushner
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 1
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People who are harder to love pose a challenge, and the challenge makes them easier to love. You're driven to love them. People who want their love easy don't really want love.
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People who experience themselves as authentic are also experiencing themselves as myth, but that's not the narrative they're going with.
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