Rachel Cusk Quotes

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Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.

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A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.

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The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new fake identity, only this time it's her equality that's fake.

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I felt that I could swim for miles, out into the ocean: a desire for freedom, an impulse to move, tugged at me as though it were a thread fastened to my chest. It was an impulse I knew well, and I had learned that it was not the summons from a larger world I used to believe it to be. It was simply a desire to escape from what I had.

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A sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is a question of the subtlest possible adjustments, a process of intuition to which exaggeration and force are fatal.

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If love is what is held to make us immortal, hatred is the reverse.

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That's writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn't turn up.

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I suppose, I said, it is one definition of love, the belief in something that only the two of you can see.

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Reality might be described as the eternal equipoise of positive and negative.

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It is interesting how keen people are for you to do something they would never dream of doing themselves, how enthusiasticall y they drive you to your own destruction.

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