Rachel Cusk Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Believe, Ocean, Moving

  Rachel Cusk (2015). “Outline”, p.39, Random House

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• Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in peoples minds with emotion.

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  Art, Writing, Self

  "Rachel Cusk", www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2010.

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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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  Gratitude, Helping, Economy

  Rachel Cusk (2012). “Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation”, p.19, Faber & Faber

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

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  Reality, Negative, Might

  Rachel Cusk (2015). “Outline: A Novel”, p.29, Macmillan

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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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  Wine, Thinking, Fake

  Rachel Cusk (2012). “Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation”, p.13, Faber & Faber

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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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  Two, Definitions, Belief

  Rachel Cusk (2015). “Outline: A Novel”, p.81, Macmillan

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• Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

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  Book, Taken, Writing

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• An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.

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  Epidemics, Eating Disorder, Female

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• I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.

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  Children, Waiting, Annoying

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• I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs.

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  Jobs, People, University

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• The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that ­others are demanding to be given it back - to be "taught" - is disturbing.

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  Creativity, Ideas, Childhood

  "Can creative writing ever be taught?" by Rachel Cusk, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2010.

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• Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.

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  Thinking, Community, Black

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• I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.

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  Children, Writing, Risk

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• A neighbor is something that belongs to the stable world of home life, the thing that lives next door to you.

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  Home, Doors, World

  "Go Forth (Vol. 34)". Interview with Alice Whitwham, logger.believermag.com. June 17, 2015.

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• Divorce also entails the beginning of a supposition that that familial reality might have obstructed one's ability to perceive others.

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  Divorce, Reality, Might

  "Go Forth (Vol. 34)". Interview with Alice Whitwham, logger.believermag.com. June 17, 2015.

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• Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.

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  Reality, Differences, Principles

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• Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.

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  Children, Writing, Creativity

  "Rachel Cusk: in praise of the creative writing course" by Rachel Cusk, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2013.

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• We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.

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  Sight, Forever, Trying

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• Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.

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  Christianity, Century

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• It's a pretty brutal process, having a baby.

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  Baby, Having A Baby, Process

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• It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking

  "Rachel Cusk: 'Divorce is only darkness'". Interview with Katharine Viner, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2012.

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• The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is turgid and stale in contemporary fiction.

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  Writing, Contemporary Fiction, Needs

  "Go Forth (Vol. 34)". Interview with Alice Whitwham, logger.believermag.com. June 17, 2015.

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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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  Men, Feminist, Principles

  Rachel Cusk (2012). “Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation”, p.13, Faber & Faber

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• Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.

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  Writing, Criticism, Honest

  "Can creative writing ever be taught?" by Rachel Cusk, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2010.

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• What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.

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  Motherhood, Two, Feminist

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