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Ben Lerner Quotes

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Ben Lerner
“What normally felt like the only possible world became one among many”
― Ben Lerner, 10:04
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Ben Lerner
“I'd become the unreliable narrator of my first novel.”
― Ben Lerner, 10:04
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Ben Lerner
“I'll project myself into several futures simultaneously.”
― Ben Lerner, 10:04
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Ben Lerner
“. . . nocturnal walks along the promenade with the looming intensities of Manhattan glittering across dark water.”
― Ben Lerner, 10:04
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Ben Lerner
“How easily worlds are crossed.”
― Ben Lerner, 10:04
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Ben Lerner
“It was no longer a little different from itself, no longer an emissary from a world to come.”
― Ben Lerner, 10:04
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Ben Lerner
“I felt a jealous anger rising within me, a desire for her to desire me, the only kind of desire, Alex had once told me during a fight, I was able to sustain.”
― Ben Lerner, 10:04
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Ben Lerner
“None of the past was usable.”
― Ben Lerner, 10:04
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Ben Lerner
“The power of it was all finally there, finally real for me.”
― Ben Lerner, 10:04
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Ben Lerner
“It's like leaving a version of myself alone with the pain, abandoning him.”
― Ben Lerner, 10:04
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Ben Lerner
“The momentary sense of having traveled back in time.”
― Ben Lerner, 10:04
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Ben Lerner
“You're asking me to be a flickering presence.”
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Ben Lerner
“Because you believe, even though you'll deny it, that writing has some kind of magical power. And you're probably crazy enough to make your fiction come true somehow.”
― Ben Lerner, 10:04
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Ben Lerner
“And I felt as if it were true: as if she were dying and not dead, or as if the train could take me back in time.”
― Ben Lerner, 10:04
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Ben Lerner
“The former says
he waits for me ahead, but I doubt I'll arrive
in time . . .”
― Ben Lerner, 10:04
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Ben Lerner
“Trying to make normal conversation . . . I felt like a character actor trying to return to an old role.”
― Ben Lerner, 10:04
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Ben Lerner
“It was as though it had already happened; predicting it felt like recalling a traumatic event.”
― Ben Lerner, 10:04
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Ben Lerner
“I sounded angry, felt nothing.”
― Ben Lerner, 10:04
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Ben Lerner
“Another historic storm had failed to arrive, as though we lived outside of history or were falling out of time.”
― Ben Lerner, 10:04
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Ben Lerner
“The worst is over. I am with you," I quoted, "and I know how it is.”
― Ben Lerner, 10:04
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