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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.
Rachel Kushner
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Rachel Kushner
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 1
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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 don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground.
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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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