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?'

Deborah Levy

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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.

diversity talking world

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.

cities past moving

It was impossible to believe that someone did not want to be save... by Deborah Levy

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

impossible want believe

She was not a poet. She was a poem. by Deborah Levy

She was not a poet. She was a poem.

poet

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.

get-better life-is home

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 speak littles

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

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