Susan Stewart Quotes

• The voice of a person thinking, discovering, revising, is ever-present without any loss in grace or ease.

  Susan Stewart

  Loss, Thinking, Voice

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• To toy with something is to manipulate it, to try it out within sets of contexts none of which is determinate.

  Susan Stewart

  Trying, Manipulation, Toys

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• The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality, its cover. Once the book is considered on the plane of its significance, it threatens infinity.

  Susan Stewart

  Book, Design, Infinity

  Susan Stewart (1984). “On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection”, p.38, Duke University Press

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