Kathryn Harrison Quotes

• I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives.

  Kathryn Harrison

  Rational, Unconscious, Intersections

  "Why Author Kathryn Harrison Wants Her Writing to 'Destroy Your Equilibrium'". Interview with Leigh Haber, www.oprah.com. November 2014.

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• Scars are stories, history written on the body

  Kathryn Harrison

  Stories, Body, Scar

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• Don’t portray yourself as who you want to be. Portray yourself as who you are.

  Kathryn Harrison

  Want, Who You Are

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• For me, writing is inseparable from thinking. I could say the entire undertaking is a vast cerebral construct against my demons. It's the thing that I love. It's my identity.

  Kathryn Harrison

  Writing, Thinking, Identity

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• We're taught to expect unconditional love from our parents, but I think it is more the gift our children give us. It's they who love us helplessly, no matter what or who we are.

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  Children, Unconditional Love, Thinking

  Kathryn Harrison (2011). “The Kiss: A Memoir”, p.175, Random House

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• I like nudging readers into a slightly different perspective, but in a sly way - I want to be the writer who slips a stiletto in and out, to make so swift and clean a cut, it's not until a chapter ends that the reader looks down and sees she's bleeding and asks what happened.

  Kathryn Harrison

  Cutting, Perspective, Want

  "Why Author Kathryn Harrison Wants Her Writing to 'Destroy Your Equilibrium'". Interview with Leigh Haber, www.oprah.com. November 2014.

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• I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

  Kathryn Harrison

  Writing, Work Out, World

  "Why Author Kathryn Harrison Wants Her Writing to 'Destroy Your Equilibrium'". Interview with Leigh Haber, www.oprah.com. November 2014.

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• Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.

  Kathryn Harrison

  Writing, Sane

  "Why Author Kathryn Harrison Wants Her Writing to 'Destroy Your Equilibrium'". Interview with Leigh Haber, www.oprah.com. November 2014.

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• Sometimes there's a sort of tear in the veil, and there are people who live in more than one dimension.

  Kathryn Harrison

  People, Tears, Veils

  "Why Author Kathryn Harrison Wants Her Writing to 'Destroy Your Equilibrium'". Interview with Leigh Haber, www.oprah.com. November 2014.

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• There aren't many people in our history who have so completely surrendered themselves to a mission that they would give up their lives for it.

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  Giving Up, People, Giving

  "Why Author Kathryn Harrison Wants Her Writing to 'Destroy Your Equilibrium'". Interview with Leigh Haber, www.oprah.com. November 2014.

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• As a young woman, I was so eager to please that I served others' happiness and even their values before my own. It didn't earn me love, but it did deliver me to a place where I had to choose between what I thought of myself and what other people did. I chose myself.

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  Others Happiness, People, Young

  "Why Author Kathryn Harrison Wants Her Writing to 'Destroy Your Equilibrium'". Interview with Leigh Haber, www.oprah.com. November 2014.

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• The dizzy rapture of starving. The power of needing nothing. By force of will I make myself the impossible sprite who lives on air, on water, on purity.

  Kathryn Harrison

  Air, Water, Force Of Will

  Kathryn Harrison (2011). “The Kiss: A Memoir”, p.41, Random House

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• My days are as long as despair can make them.

  Kathryn Harrison

  Long, Despair

  Kathryn Harrison (2011). “The Kiss: A Memoir”, p.155, Random House

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