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Rachel Kushner
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 1
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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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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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Lovers offered only what they offered and nothing more, and what they offered came with provisos: believe what you want and don't look carefully at what isn't acceptable to you.
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Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It's a way of being alive, for the writer.
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I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by their childhood, or by some recent trauma or event. People are incredibly complicated. Who knows why they are the way they are?
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People who want their love easy don't really want love.
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I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it.
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For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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Authenticity is too big a subject to just toss in with the question about the photographs!
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A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious.
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The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it’s worthy of respect. It’s not admirable to want love, it just is.
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I like to think each writer is doing his or her part. Feeding the lake, as Jean Rhys said. And maybe there are different lakes.
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To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.
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I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground.
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I think art is much more about an engagement with the world, a way of being called upon and recognizing that the world is speaking to you. Which isn't quite solitude, even if you're alone when it happens.
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Motorcycles aren't about gaining agency, I don't think.
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I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.
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Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly technical things pertaining to craft.
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I am interested in risk, in art as well as in the realm of politics.
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