Rachel Zucker Quotes

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• Halloween means that young girls dress up in highly sexualized outfits that would never be acceptable if it weren't Halloween.

  Rachel Zucker

  Girl, Halloween, Mean

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• I don't remember ever dressing up for Halloween but I must have. I do not like dressing up at all.

  Rachel Zucker

  Halloween, Dressing Up, Remember

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• I do not like candy. I do not like knocking on strangers' doors. I do not like having to deal with the candy disaster that is Halloween. I resent it.

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  Halloween, Doors, Stranger

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• I HATE HALLOWEEN. This makes me VERY unpopular.

  Rachel Zucker

  Hate, Halloween, I Hate

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• I like the way the prose and poetry interact.

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  Prose And Poetry, Way, Prose

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• I am interested in the movement of my own thoughts and in trying make the poems feel more accurate to experience, including the experience of thinking.

  Rachel Zucker

  Thinking, Trying, Movement

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• I am only able to be honest. And sometimes my view of the world is pretty dark. But still funny.

  Rachel Zucker

  Dark, Views, World

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• I'm in a hard place now. A very silent place. And I'm struggling to either accept this or drag myself out of it.

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  Struggle, Silent, Accepting

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• Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten.

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  Survival, Essentials, Underrated

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• When I edit the poems - and I do edit, which some people don't mean when they use the term "stream of consciousness" - I'm usually editing toward greater accuracy, which sometimes means more fragmentation, because that is the way I think.

  Rachel Zucker

  Mean, Thinking, Editing

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• I have a complicated relationship with non-human animals. I've never really been close to one.

  Rachel Zucker

  Animal, Complicated Relationship, Humans

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• I'm fascinated by but afraid of animals.

  Rachel Zucker

  Animal, Fascinated

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• I think it's a huge shortcoming of mine - this disconnect between the world of human and animals. We are animals.

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  Thinking, Animal, World

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• Lizzie Harris's Stop Wanting is an unflinching book about a girlhood filled with violence, doubt, vulnerability, and loss. These gorgeously crafted and hauntingly memorable poems are a bleak place full of life, prayer, and the kind of answers only poems like these can provide.

  Rachel Zucker

  Prayer, Book, Memorable

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• Writing on the subway or anywhere is writing. Maybe it's all just writing.

  Rachel Zucker

  Writing, Subway

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• I love it when artists talk about process! I love the movie Comedian.

  Rachel Zucker

  Artist, Comedian, Process

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• I do not like it when other people dress up. I like everyone to be THEMSELVES.

  Rachel Zucker

  People, Dresses

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• I agree that comedy does a good job - and is often about - stepping over the line - Lenny Bruce, etc. - and that this is important for a lot of poets too. I guess I feel like there has to be depth.

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  Jobs, Important, Depth

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• In high school my mother advised me to make my last lines into titles. It was very good advice.

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  Mother, School, Advice

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• I love food too much - not because I'm fat but because it's so consumptionistic, etc.

  Rachel Zucker

  Too Much, Etc, I Love Food

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• Usually I avoid sugar, but sugar is like the most deeply satisfying addictive thing ever.

  Rachel Zucker

  Sugar, Satisfying

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• I don't write very much about penises. More than some poets but not perhaps as much as I should.

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  Writing, Poet, Should

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• I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it.

  Rachel Zucker

  Writing, Students

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• Penises are literally all around me all the time, and have a lot of influence on the world, on my world.

  Rachel Zucker

  World, Influence

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• It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation.

  Rachel Zucker

  Writing, Currents, Situation

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