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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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Rachel Kushner
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 1
Journalist
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Since it's fiction, the book resonates, at least for me, on various levels, some of which intimate ideas about history but none of which have the kind of directly causal reasoning you cite.
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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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I am interested in risk, in art as well as in the realm of politics.
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Authenticity is too big a subject to just toss in with the question about the photographs!
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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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For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is.
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My natural orientation has never been among a community of writers, really. For some reason my social world has always been in the art world.
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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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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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I don't quite see the 20th century as one of chaos. But I believe in certain inevitable outcomes of a materialist nature.
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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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Leave, with no answer. Move on to the next question.
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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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And here I arrive at my point. The point is that everyone has a different dream. The point is that it is a grave mistake to assume your dream is in any way shared, that it’s a common dream. Not only is it not shared, not common, there is no reason to assume that other people don’t find you and your dream utterly revolting.
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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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