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Sarah Manguso Quotes: "Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a chair can do."

Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a chair can do.



Sarah Manguso Quotes: "Around you move many seas. It is impossible not to drown a little."

Around you move many seas. It is impossible not to drown a little.




Sarah Manguso Quotes: "If you think something's happened quickly, you're looking at only a part of it."

If you think something's happened quickly, you're looking at only a part of it.



Sarah Manguso Quotes: "Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing."

Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing.




Sarah Manguso Quotes: "Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us - by taking everything"

Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us - by taking everything



Sarah Manguso Quotes: "You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness into brightness."

You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness into brightness.



Sarah Manguso Quotes: "The catalog of emotion that disappears when someone dies, and the degree to which we rely on a few people to record something of what life was to them, is almost too much to bear."

The catalog of emotion that disappears when someone dies, and the degree to which we rely on a few people to record something of what life was to them, is almost too much to bear.




Sarah Manguso Quotes: "The more you talk about something, the less accurate it gets."

The more you talk about something, the less accurate it gets.



Sarah Manguso Quotes: "I don't write toward a genre, and I try not to make claim to a genre after a book is published. That said, The Guardians isn't poetry. It's prose."

I don't write toward a genre, and I try not to make claim to a genre after a book is published. That said, The Guardians isn't poetry. It's prose.



Sarah Manguso Quotes: "This is suffering's lesson: pay attention. The important part might come in a form you do not recognize."

This is suffering's lesson: pay attention. The important part might come in a form you do not recognize.



Sarah Manguso Quotes: "The best thing about time passing is the privilege of running out of it, of watching the wave of mortality break over me and everyone I know."

The best thing about time passing is the privilege of running out of it, of watching the wave of mortality break over me and everyone I know.



Sarah Manguso Quotes: "I like people who possess either deep mastery or deep empathy, but not as much as I like those who possess both."

I like people who possess either deep mastery or deep empathy, but not as much as I like those who possess both.




Sarah Manguso Quotes: "If I'm not writing a thing, depression might be looming."

If I'm not writing a thing, depression might be looming.



Sarah Manguso Quotes: "I see no reason not to write whatever comes to me."

I see no reason not to write whatever comes to me.



Sarah Manguso Quotes: "Look at me, dancing my little dance for a few moments against the background of eternity."

Look at me, dancing my little dance for a few moments against the background of eternity.



Sarah Manguso Quotes: "Experience in itself wasn’t enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I’d missed it."

Experience in itself wasn’t enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I’d missed it.



Sarah Manguso Quotes: "Today was very full, but the problem isn't today. It's tomorrow. I'd be able to recover from today if it weren't for tomorrow. There should be extra days, buffer days, between real days."

Today was very full, but the problem isn't today. It's tomorrow. I'd be able to recover from today if it weren't for tomorrow. There should be extra days, buffer days, between real days.



Sarah Manguso Quotes: "I read obituaries every day to learn what sorts of lives are available to us, to see an entire life compressed into a few column inches, to fit the whole story in my eye at once."

I read obituaries every day to learn what sorts of lives are available to us, to see an entire life compressed into a few column inches, to fit the whole story in my eye at once.