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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.

Rachel Kushner

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Rachel Kushner
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 1
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I think any time you deal with humans and the way they exploit one another and cause pain you are in the realm of politics, on some level.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious.
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I am interested in risk, in art as well as in the realm of politics.
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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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Leave, with no answer. Move on to the next question.
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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.
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People are complicated. Personally I don't go in for puritanical people.
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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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