- Nov 07, 2020
Think Quotes
Quotes that share what people really think.
Many quotes here open with a direct 'I think,' offering personal beliefs - some lighthearted, like using comedy as a defense, others sobering, including grim predictions about where humanity is headed. A few weigh in on cryptography and the future of communication, a subject also touched on in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't reported in grand detail on rituals of American life, road journeys or malls or the death of steel-manufacturing towns. I think this is because I feel a degree of alienation that I cannot combat.
- Essay
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- Nov 07, 2020
An essay is not an op-ed that tells its reader what to think. An essay is a complicated working-out of one's own contradictions and complicities.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think criticism is often so pallid, so tame. I wish it were more performative.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I close my eyes and think of a writer, I don't imagine him or her as someone who is sitting above me on a pedestal, blindfolded, holding the scales of justice in one hand! No, I see sentences.
- Fake
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even fake news tries to convince us of its reality, but it does so mostly by appealing to your preconceived notions, your shared biases, or your prejudice. How to do the opposite? To create a sense of the real and then challenge your biases. I think that is my favourite aspect of writing, and that is what I've tried to do in 'The Lovers.'
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do think, in general, children are so perceptive, and they watch and they get so much, and that's wonderful. And it's also difficult for them because they see so much, but they don't understand.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love writing letters. In order to write a novel in first person, I think I needed an addressee.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think marriage and family keeps being written about because that's where we keep our reputations with ourselves - I mean, we can't quite slip the truths we reveal about ourselves at home.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a writer is a describer. She describes society and human nature as she sees it. She has to be both typical of that society and alone within it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I have a very American desire and willingness to divulge everything. I would divulge more if I didn't know it wasn't smart.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think novels are profoundly autobiographical. If writers deny that, they are lying. Or if it's really true, then I think it's a mistake.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think some authors suffer from a need to try to prove that they're clever and educated. I try not to suffer from that. I would rather sacrifice my own narrative in the exercise of writing a biography. So I'm not worried about whether I'm clever.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're in a kind of vicious cycle where the media tell the politicians, and the politicians tell the people, that perception is reality, and the perception of saving dooms a politician. I don't believe perception is reality, or that all Americans think that.
- Work
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- Nov 07, 2020