Moments Quotes - Page 26

• The truce is that. You forgive all of these moments because you're constantly waiting for the moment when you will be seen. As an equal. As just another person. As another first person. There's a letting go that comes with it.

  Claudia Rankine

  Letting Go, Waiting, Forgiving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I look for the moment(s) in the story where the writer risked abandoning the glory of the self in favor of the possible relationship with an other. I don't ever let the market tell me what a memoir is. The first best memoir I ever read was Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Self, Looks, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've never meditated for a moment in my life. I don't know how it works. But one of the things you have to do to put yourself in the meditating mode is stop narrating yourself to yourself.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Meditating, Know How, Knows

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• You have to suspend thinking in narratives. The moment you are conscious of yourself the gap opens up. And in this gap, stories are generated.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Thinking, Narrative, Gaps

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• I think that I have come at it backwards in a way because a lot of what I'm doing as a songwriter is not incredibly intentional. There's a moment that happens which creates the song or the actual idea for a song, and then I'm like, "Oh, it's this kind of song."

  Mirah

  Song, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I do notice that my songs fit all over the map, even in terms of the colloquialisms in them. The songs come out with their references intact, almost unheeded by me. It's like they existed somehow before they met me with their relationship to the tradition, and then they just end up coming through me at that moment because of my relationship to some certain kind of music that I've listened to in my life. I know that sounds a little bit woooey.

  Mirah

  Song, Sound, Maps

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I do experience something pretty commonly with every song; there's some moment where it clicks into its own life with its own emotional impact that I feel, and even though technically I'm the one writing the song, it's like watching a storm come in.

  Mirah

  Song, Writing, Emotional

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Being a writer means I sit in a dark (and pretty dank) room off my garage for many hours a day, and in my wallowing moments I can feel as if I'm already on the outside of society, peering wistfully in.

  Lauren Groff

  Mean, Dark, Rooms

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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• Fiction is always a utopian task, in that there's an ideal you hold in your head as you write which inevitably fails in the moment of creation, in the insufficiency of words to convey meaning, or in the way the work is completed in the reader's head.

  Lauren Groff

  Writing, Tasks, Fiction

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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• The most amazing moments are when something horrible is about to happen or has just happened. The iceberg falling into the ocean. That aching moment. You can see the pieces, you can see how they fit together, but you can't put them back together.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Ocean, Fall, Together

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Also, I'm drawn to moments of ambiguity, when things could go right or they could go wrong. I'm interested in discomfort. Discomfort is a place where we're still close enough to comfort to understand our unhappiness. Most of the things we desire are things that can destroy us.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Desire, Comfort, Unhappiness

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Heartbreak is when you're just far enough away from what you desire that you can feel it. Change is the Pangaea moment. I feel like I'm at this point in my life where I have created this place, this island in the ocean, and I'm happy there.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Ocean, Islands, Desire

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Well, my intention is to make work about being uncomfortable. About being in a world that isn't always the world you want to be part of. I talk a lot about the free fall, the moment in the scene where gravity takes over, and the beautiful awkwardness when gravity wins. Gravity is hilarious. Gravity always wins.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Beautiful, Fall, Winning

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Yoga has stopped me from destroying my joints after running. It slows me down. My brain and body can go into overdrive - yoga teaches me to focus on the moment and not get ahead of myself.

  Julia Stiles

  Running, Yoga, Focus

  Interview with Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When you go on a stage - or even in a café or a room - and you play it's all happening right then and there: the exchange, the art, the communication. Performance is in the moment.

  Gail Ann Dorsey

  Art, Communication, Play

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Musically, there's probably nothing better than, after spending weeks or months of grinding on a lyric or a song, when you play a good song from beginning to end for the first time - there's a moment there where all the pain and suffering is worth it.

  Five for Fighting

  Song, Pain, Play

  "John Ondrasik Interview from Five For Fighting". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• I don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment away.

  Dani Shapiro

  Past, Wish, Want

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• The truth is in the present moment.

  Dani Shapiro

  Truth Is, Present Moment

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• I do all the things that singer-songwriters do. I introduce the songs, I have a story to tell about everything all the time - I cannot be on stage and have something on my mind without telling the audience. I'm super emotional and expressive and vulnerable in that moment.

  India.Arie

  Song, Emotional, Mind

  "The Legend, The Voice: India.Arie". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• There is part of me that longs to have the back-to-the-earth life - make my own bread, grow my own wheat, just be really self-sufficient - but I am not, at the moment, willing to give up the luxury of modern life, and amazing schools for my kids, and things that I've come to rely on that are parts of society.

  Lauren Groff

  Giving Up, School, Kids

  "Bit And Peace: Lauren Groff’s Arcadia". Interview with Clare Stein, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 8, 2012.

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• I've felt afraid as a reporter many times. Sometimes it's sharp, as in a bad moment, or a bad situation; other times it's general, as in a country known for kidnapping, where you can never quite relax.

  William Finnegan

  Country, Relax, Never Quit

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Most of my books are about contemporary subjects, and the world changes so fast that I'm lucky when events haven't overtaken the book I'm writing at the moment.

  Nelson DeMille

  Book, Writing, Events

  Talk City Network Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. 2000.

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• None of us sees history fully; none of us is adequately aware of how the arrangements of the present moment foreclose the possibilities of others to fully live their only lives.

  Garth Greenwell

  Possibility, Arrangements, Present Moment

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I do think that the sense of being opposed to the present moment, that sense of the rub of history, invigorates the writing I find most exciting, and maybe precisely in being equally allegiant to an inward fineness of sensibility and an outward-facing rigor of protest or critique.

  Garth Greenwell

  Writing, Thinking, Inward

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There's a class divide in black America that doesn't seem to trouble black Americans so much, but whites use it and exploit it. The progress of a few is allowed to stand for the progress of everyone. We can't afford that kind of disaffection at the moment.

  Darryl Pinckney

  Class, America, Black

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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