Mark Z. Danielewski Quotes

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• Have no fear, you will find your way. It's in your bones. It's in your soul.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Soul, Way, No Fear

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Life, Latin, Mean

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.

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  Acceptance, Maturity, Knowing

  Twitter post from May 26, 2011

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• I want something else. I'm not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it's drenched in sunlight and it's weightless and I know it's not cheap. Probably not even real

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  Real, Want Something, Sunlight

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• Keep true to the rare music in your heart, to the marvelous and unique form that is and shall always be nothing else but you. Keep to that and you can do no wrong, which I realize is easier said than done.

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  Heart, Unique, Done

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• Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Men, Trying, Void

  Twitter post from Dec 01, 2011

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• You shall be my roots and I will be your shade, though the sun burns my leaves. You shall quench my thirst and I will feed you fruit, though time takes my seed. And when I'm lost and can tell nothing of this earth you will give me hope. And my voice you will always hear. And my hand you will always have. For I will shelter you. And I will comfort you. And even when we are nothing left, not even in death, I will remember you.

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  Remember You, Remembers You, Hands

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• The ruminations are mine, let the world be yours.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Rumination, World, World Is Yours

  "House of Leaves". Book by Mark Z. Danielewski, March 7, 2000.

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• I do not know anything about Art with a capital A. What I do know about is my art. Because it concerns me. I do not speak for others. So I do not speak for things which profess to speak for others. My art, however, speaks for me. It lights my way.

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  Art, Light, Way

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• We all create stories to protect ourselves.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Stories, Protect, House Of Leaves

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Losing, Possibility, Without Hope

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• Stories heard but not recalled. Letters too. Words filling my head. Fragmenting like artillery shells. Shrapnel, like syllables, flying everywhere. Terrible syllables. Sharp cracked. Traveling at murderous speed. Tearing through it all in a very, very bad inreparable way.

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  Flying, Stories, Shells

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• Her smile, I'm sure, burnt Rome to the ground.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Smile, Rome, Her Smile

  Twitter post from Dec 13, 2012

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• At the heart of any terror is the fear of losing what we find meaningful.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Meaningful, Heart, Losing

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• My hands resemble some ancient tree: the roots that bind up the earth, the rock and the ceaselessly nibbling wordms.

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  Rocks, Hands, Roots

  Twitter post from Feb 02, 2012

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• Even the brightest magnesium flare can do little against such dark except blind the eyes of the one holding it. Thus one craves what by seeing one has in fact not seen.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Eye, Dark, Littles

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• Who has never killed an hour?

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Hours

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• ...she still cannot resist looking out the window every couple of minutes. The sound of a passing truck causes her to glance away. Even if there is no sound, the weight of a hundred seconds always turns her head.

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  Couple, Causes, Sound

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• This great blue world of ours is but a house of leaves, moments before the wind.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Blue, Wind, House

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• Little solace comes to those who grieve when thoughts keep drifting as walls keep shifting and this great blue world of ours seems a house of leaves moments before the wind.

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  Wall, Grieving, Wind

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• And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Echoes, Space, Silence

  Twitter post from Jul 29, 2010

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• Even the closest relationships that I have I know could potentially fall away. That's not to speak pessimistically or negatively about those relationships. In a weird way, it's the opposite. I value them.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Fall, Opposites, Way

  "House Of Leaves author Mark Z. Danielewski on his new book and sewing paper" by Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. October 16, 2012.

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• Because the enormous narcissism of their parents deprived Will and Tom of suitable role models, both brothers learned to identify with absence. Consequently, even if something beneficial fortuitously entered their lives they immediately treated it as temporary. By the time they were teenagers they were already accustomed to a discontinuous lifestyle marked by constant threats of abandonment and the lack of any emotional stability. Unfortunately, "accustomed to" here is really synonymous with "damaged by.

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  Brother, Teenager, Emotional

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• Absolutely nothing visible to the eye provides a reason for or even evidence of those terrifying shifts which can in a matter of moments reconstitute a simple path into an extremely complicated one.

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  Eye, Simple, Matter

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• I think that's what finally stopped me. I slid right to the edge. My legs were hanging over. And I could feel it too. I don't know how. There was no wind, no sound, no change of temperature. There was just this terrible emptiness reaching up for me.

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  Thinking, Reaching Up, Wind

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