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A Century of Fiction in The New Yorker: 1925-2025

by Deborah Treisman

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“To declaim against present times, and magnify the virtue of remote ancestors, is a propensity almost inherent in human nature.”
― David Hume, of Refinement in the Arts

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“When I desire you a part of me is gone: my want of you partakes of me.”
― Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay

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“I would like to grasp why it is that these two activities, falling in love and coming to know, make me feel genuinely alive. There is something like an electrification in them.”
― Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay

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“He loved, that is, the process of coming to know… In any act of thinking, the mind must reach across this space between known and unknown… It is an erotic space. When the mind reaches out to know, the space of desire opens.”
― Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet

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“Remember the Simone de Beauvoir quote,” she said, “ ‘You can’t have everything you want but you can want everything you want.’ ”
― Miranda July, All Fours

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