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300 Arguments: Essays QUOTES

1 " The fastest way to revise a piece of work is to send it, late at night, to someone whose opinion you fear. Then rewrite it, praying you'll finish in time to send a new version by morning. "

― Sarah Manguso , 300 Arguments: Essays

2 " The affair is over, but at least things have gone somewhere, if only into oblivion. And maybe oblivion is what I wanted all along. "

― Sarah Manguso , 300 Arguments: Essays

3 " It’s impossible to fail if one doesn’t know how the end should look. And it’s impossible to succeed. But it’s possible to enjoy. "

― Sarah Manguso , 300 Arguments: Essays

4 " Bad art is from no one to no one. "

― Sarah Manguso , 300 Arguments: Essays

5 " Respect the one-hit wonder not for his one hit but for all the days he must have suffered afterward, trying for another. "

― Sarah Manguso , 300 Arguments: Essays

6 " The trouble with setting goals is that you’re constantly working toward what you used to want. "

― Sarah Manguso , 300 Arguments: Essays

7 " You'll never know what your mother went through. "

― Sarah Manguso , 300 Arguments: Essays

8 " The trouble with letting people see you at your worst isn't that they'll remember; it's that you'll remember. "

― Sarah Manguso , 300 Arguments: Essays

9 " Difficulty becomes familiar, at least, if no less difficult. "

― Sarah Manguso , 300 Arguments: Essays

10 " Only a fire can teach you what survives a fire. No, it teaches you what can survive that fire. "

― Sarah Manguso , 300 Arguments: Essays

11 " The trouble with comparing yourself to others is that there are too many others. Using all others as your control group, all your worst fears and all your fondest hopes are at once true. You are good; you are bad; you are abnormal; you are just like everyone else. "

― Sarah Manguso , 300 Arguments: Essays

12 " Some people will punish you merely for witnessing their weakness. Even if they sought you out and asked for help. Even if you helped. Especially if you helped. "

― Sarah Manguso , 300 Arguments: Essays

13 " Depression is hard to describe not just because it is complex and abstract but also because it occupies the part of us capable of describing things. "

― Sarah Manguso , 300 Arguments: Essays

14 " I like writing that is unsummarizable, a kernel that cannot be condensed, that must be uttered exactly as it is. "

― Sarah Manguso , 300 Arguments: Essays

15 " Biographies should also contain the events that failed to foreshadow. "

― Sarah Manguso , 300 Arguments: Essays

16 " Sometimes a single sentence can be enough to fill the imagination completely. And sometimes a book's title is enough. "

― Sarah Manguso , 300 Arguments: Essays

17 " We like stories that are false and seem true (realist novels), that are true and seem false (true crime), that are false and seem false (dragons and superheroes), or that are true and seem true, but it's harder to agree on what that is. "

― Sarah Manguso , 300 Arguments: Essays

18 " Anger conceals pain. It also conceals love. "

― Sarah Manguso , 300 Arguments: Essays

19 " Inner beauty can fade, too. "

― Sarah Manguso , 300 Arguments: Essays

20 " Like a vase, a heart breaks once. After that, it just yields to its flaws. "

― Sarah Manguso , 300 Arguments: Essays