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Sarah Manguso Quotes

Total quotes: 5
“But to pay attention is to love everything.”
— Sarah Manguso, The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir
Tagged: Love, Life, Attention, Direction, one perfect sentence, Affirm Everything, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Why do I need to read sixty minutes in the morning, and swim twenty laps in the afternoon, and write a thousand words at night, in order to feel that a twenty-four-hour period has been well used?”
— Sarah Manguso, The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir
Tagged: Identity, Optimization, What Is A Good Day?, How Should A Person Spend Their Time, Addicted To Efficiency, Time
“Narratives in which one thing follows from the previous thing are usually imaginary.”
— Sarah Manguso, The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir
Tagged: Narrative Fallacy
“Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of the self. ”
— Sarah Manguso, The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir
Tagged: Identity, Self Boundaries
“Nothing happens in a moment. Nothing happens quickly. If you think something’s happened quickly, you’re looking at only a part of it.   Firing a rifle shot seems to happen quickly, but what about the movement of the trigger finger? What about the decision to fire the rifle? What about all your careful target practice? What about everything in your life that happened before you decide to fire that rifle?”
— Sarah Manguso, The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir
Tagged: Time, Patience
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