Darcey Steinke Quotes

#1. I think unknowing is the most important theological idea for me. Unlearning the things you think you know.

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#2. Everything was new, now I'm a junkie, I seem to need more severe doses of experience to feel anything.

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#3. A good biography is the richest experience. When you watch a TV series together with someone is like being in a novel with them.

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#4. I knew people want most what they pretend to hate, that it takes courage to say what you really want.

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#5. When you write you have to reside in the unknown for as long as possible.

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#6. You'll see, there are a million ways to kill off the soft parts of yourself.

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#7. Maybe all spirits flew to Paris, not only French ones. Could you haunt a place you'd never been?

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#8. I thought of happy endings, how novelists usually flinched. To admit your characters are doomed means you are too.

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#9. The story of Adam and Eve has less to do with evil than the cosmic human sadness that relationships are never straightforward, never pure enough.

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#10. I always think to myself, being human, having crushes now, what is it about that person that I really want? What do they represent? More freedom? Someone to care for me more? It's never really about the person.

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#11. I spent so much time as a child thinking what if I was a robot, what if my mind were somewhere else? As a kid you're in the middle of all that.

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#12. What is love but a nostalgia for someones history? Their boyhood haunts and sullen adolescence, their teenage trips cross-country and fights with their fathers and especially their old lovers?

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#13. I knew you could find a certain relief in begging God, it had helped me, but on the other hand, God never answered directly and that was always depressing.

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#14. When you love a woman, you love yourself, and it's terrible really, how it seems perfectly possible to swallow the other. With a man you want to join, you want your ribs to connect like handcuffs. But with a woman if you swallow, she becomes you.

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#15. As a child I made a pact with my mother. I agreed that we were doomed, that she and I abided together in a cocoon of melancholy.

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#16. Relationships are like wall paper patterns, you think your moving forward but your always caught in your own obsessions.

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#17. The problem with being a modern woman, I thought, as the front door swung wide, is that you have to pretend to be stronger than you are.

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#18. Say no! I thought. Say you want yourself all for your own self. Say that you have no specific country, say that you are important without any story from above, say that your home is with me and the other girls up in the sky.

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