300 Arguments: Essays
Sarah Manguso
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The trouble with letting people see you at your worst isn't that they'll remember; it's that you'll remember.”
“You'll never know what your mother went through.”
“Difficulty becomes familiar, at least, if no less difficult.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Only a fire can teach you what survives a fire. No, it teaches you what can survive that fire.”
“I like writing that is unsummarizable, a kernel that cannot be condensed, that must be uttered exactly as it is.”
“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.”
“Biographies should also contain the events that failed to foreshadow.”
“Sometimes a single sentence can be enough to fill the imagination completely. And sometimes a book's title is enough.”
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