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Ben Lerner Quotes

The chicken is a little dry and/or you’ve ruined my life Picture Quote #1

I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American Picture Quote #1

I didn’t want to write another book about fraudulence Picture Quote #1

I’ve been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding into the past Picture Quote #1

The transpersonal is more awe-inspiring, more exciting than the thing we confuse it for Picture Quote #1

I wasn’t aware I’d write the novel when I wrote the New Yorker story either. And the narration of their construction in 10:04 is fiction, however flickering Picture Quote #1

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The story and the poem are obviously changed by being placed in the novel, so in a sense they’re no longer the works that preceded the novel Picture Quote #1

Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost Picture Quote #1

I guess when I’m frightened or in pain or maybe very bored I’ve tried to hold myself together by imposing a narrative order on the experience as it happens Picture Quote #1

I’m trying to be somebody on whom the experience is lost by supplanting it with its telling. I definitely do that in medical contexts, even in trivial ones Picture Quote #1

I’m defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre Picture Quote #1

I remember I had this recurring dream that we were playing a night game and instead of eye black we had mashed up the glowing bodies of fireflies and put that under our eyes. So our faces were glowing - a kind of night vision Picture Quote #1

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Every relationship can feel saturated by market logic or at best purchased at the price of the immiseration of others Picture Quote #1

I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature’s ability to be anything more than perfectly bound blog posts or transcribed sitcoms Picture Quote #1

Anyway I read more contemporary poetry than contemporary fiction so my mind goes first to a kind of crass conceptualism that repeats vanguard gestures of the past minus the politics and historical context Picture Quote #1

I wasn’t aware I’d write the novel when I wrote the New Yorker story either. And the narration of their construction in 10:04 is fiction, however flickering Picture Quote #1

Maybe that’s the way I’m private - I respect the privacy of my characters? Anyway, we’re getting close to the whole relatability and likability thing Picture Quote #1

When the narrator feels like an octopus, when he says his limbs are starting to multiply, he means he has inklings of orders of perception beyond his individual body Picture Quote #1

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I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature’s ability to be anything more than perfectly bound blog posts or transcribed sitcoms Picture Quote #1

I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who’ve made a commercialized fetish of the culture’s stupidity Picture Quote #1

I like to think - knowing that it’s an enabling fiction - of those moments as fragments from a world to come, a world where price isn’t the only measure of value Picture Quote #1

Every relationship can feel saturated by market logic or at best purchased at the price of the immiseration of others Picture Quote #1

Many of the left thinkers that really matter to me - that formed a big part of my thinking about politics and art - emphasize how capitalism is a totality, how there’s no escape from it, no outside Picture Quote #1

Are there are fireflies on the West Coast? I never saw any when I lived in California Picture Quote #1

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My concern is how we live fictions, how fictions have real effects, become facts in that sense, and how our experience of the world changes depending on its arrangement into one narrative or another Picture Quote #1

Most of us start from that position of irony now and what I wanted to do - really felt like I had to do if I was going to write another novel - was move towards something like sincerity Picture Quote #1

Art has to offer something other than stylized despair Picture Quote #1

The scare quotes burn off like fog Picture Quote #1

Shaving is a way to start the workday by ritually not cutting your throat when you’ve the chance Picture Quote #1

I came to realize that far more important to me than any plot or conventional sense was the sheer directionality I felt while reading prose, the texture of time as it passed, life’s white machine Picture Quote #1

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The chicken is a little dry and/or you’ve ruined my life (Ben Lerner Quotes) I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American (Ben Lerner Quotes) I didn’t want to write another book about fraudulence (Ben Lerner Quotes) I’ve been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding into the past (Ben Lerner Quotes) The transpersonal is more awe-inspiring, more exciting than the thing we confuse it for (Ben Lerner Quotes) I wasn’t aware I’d write the novel when I wrote the New Yorker story either. And the narration of their construction in 10:04 is fiction, however flickering (Ben Lerner Quotes) The story and the poem are obviously changed by being placed in the novel, so in a sense they’re no longer the works that preceded the novel (Ben Lerner Quotes) Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost (Ben Lerner Quotes) I guess when I’m frightened or in pain or maybe very bored I’ve tried to hold myself together by imposing a narrative order on the experience as it happens (Ben Lerner Quotes) I’m trying to be somebody on whom the experience is lost by supplanting it with its telling. I definitely do that in medical contexts, even in trivial ones (Ben Lerner Quotes) I’m defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre (Ben Lerner Quotes) I remember I had this recurring dream that we were playing a night game and instead of eye black we had mashed up the glowing bodies of fireflies and put that under our eyes. So our faces were glowing - a kind of night vision (Ben Lerner Quotes) Every relationship can feel saturated by market logic or at best purchased at the price of the immiseration of others. (Ben Lerner Quotes) I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature’s ability to be anything more than perfectly bound blog posts or transcribed sitcoms. (Ben Lerner Quotes) Anyway I read more contemporary poetry than contemporary fiction so my mind goes first to a kind of crass conceptualism that repeats vanguard gestures of the past minus the politics and historical context. (Ben Lerner Quotes) I wasn’t aware I’d write the novel when I wrote the New Yorker story either. And the narration of their construction in 10:04 is fiction, however flickering. (Ben Lerner Quotes) Maybe that’s the way I’m private - I respect the privacy of my characters? Anyway, we’re getting close to the whole relatability and likability thing. (Ben Lerner Quotes) When the narrator feels like an octopus, when he says his limbs are starting to multiply, he means he has inklings of orders of perception beyond his individual body (Ben Lerner Quotes) I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature’s ability to be anything more than perfectly bound blog posts or transcribed sitcoms (Ben Lerner Quotes) I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who’ve made a commercialized fetish of the culture’s stupidity (Ben Lerner Quotes) I like to think - knowing that it’s an enabling fiction - of those moments as fragments from a world to come, a world where price isn’t the only measure of value (Ben Lerner Quotes) Every relationship can feel saturated by market logic or at best purchased at the price of the immiseration of others (Ben Lerner Quotes) Many of the left thinkers that really matter to me - that formed a big part of my thinking about politics and art - emphasize how capitalism is a totality, how there’s no escape from it, no outside (Ben Lerner Quotes) Are there are fireflies on the West Coast? I never saw any when I lived in California (Ben Lerner Quotes) My concern is how we live fictions, how fictions have real effects, become facts in that sense, and how our experience of the world changes depending on its arrangement into one narrative or another (Ben Lerner Quotes) Most of us start from that position of irony now and what I wanted to do - really felt like I had to do if I was going to write another novel - was move towards something like sincerity (Ben Lerner Quotes) Art has to offer something other than stylized despair (Ben Lerner Quotes) The scare quotes burn off like fog (Ben Lerner Quotes) Shaving is a way to start the workday by ritually not cutting your throat when you’ve the chance (Ben Lerner Quotes) I came to realize that far more important to me than any plot or conventional sense was the sheer directionality I felt while reading prose, the texture of time as it passed, life’s white machine (Ben Lerner Quotes)

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