Anthony Marra Quotes - Page 2

• Sometimes it bursts from your imagination fully formed, sometimes you absorb from nonfiction, sometimes you're able to imprint your own autobiographical experiences on a world you never yourself were a part of. A decent number of the one-liners in the title story originally came up in conversations with my girlfriend or my neighbor.

  Anthony Marra

  Girlfriend, Numbers, Imagination

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• A good mixtape didn't just gather together a bunch of love songs, but instead created an emotional narrative specific to your affection. The stories in most of my favorite collections are collected more like songs on a mixtape than, say, collected like spare change. By which I mean they are in conversation with each other and work to become larger than their parts.

  Anthony Marra

  Song, Mean, Emotional

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We twist our souls around each other’s miseries.

  Anthony Marra

  Soul, Twists, Misery

  Anthony Marra (2013). “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena”, p.307, Random House

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• Work isn't meaningful just because you spend your life doing it.

  Anthony Marra

  Meaningful

  Anthony Marra (2013). “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena”, p.54, Random House

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• Sleep just a while longer, that's it, where else can you go where you neither suffer nor cause suffering.

  Anthony Marra

  Sleep, Suffering, Causes

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• It's stupid. There are maps to show you how to get to the place where you want to be but no maps that show you how to get to the time when you want to be.

  Anthony Marra

  Stupid, Maps, Want

  Anthony Marra (2013). “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena”, p.106, Random House

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• She wouldn't climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn't cross a room, but she had crossed a continent.

  Anthony Marra

  Sister, Bed, Rooms

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• You are a coward,' she said, and with that one word wrote a denunciation, a biography, and a prophecy.

  Anthony Marra

  Coward, Biographies, Said

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• She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat.

  Anthony Marra

  Four, Fists, Language

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• Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of all things to fulfill its own.

  Anthony Marra

  Definitions, Bugs, Exclusion

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• Anytime I can get either of them really laughing, I immediately pull out a pad of paper write the joke down, regardless of where we are or what we're doing. I must be absolutely insufferable.

  Anthony Marra

  Writing, Laughing, Paper

  Source: therumpus.net

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