Deborah Levy Quotes

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  • I realised that the question I had asked myself while writing this book [Swimming Home] was (as surgeons say) very close to the bone: 'What do we do with knowledge that we cannot bear to live with? What do we do with the things we do not want to know?'

    Book   Home   Writing  
  • It was impossible to believe that someone did not want to be saved from their incoherence.

  • When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense.

    Tense   Feels   Happened  
    "Things I Don't Want to Know by Deborah Levy - review" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2013.
  • She was not a poet. She was a poem.

    Poet  
  • To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL.

    Voice   Littles   Speak  
    "Things I Don't Want to Know by Deborah Levy - review" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2013.
  • I have never got a grip on when the past begins or where it ends, but if cities map the past with statues made from bronze forever frozen in one dignified position, as much as I try to make the past keep still and mind its manners, it moves and murmurs with me through every day.

    Moving   Past   Cities  
  • Be sure to enjoy language, experiment with ways of talking, be exuberant even when you don't feel like it because language can make your world a better place to live.

  • Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely. But you tried and you did not get home safely. You did not get home at all.

    "Swimming Home by Deborah Levy - review" by John Self, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2011.
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