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Norman Rush Quotes

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“And the question was still there of whether their true interior selves—the subtle bodies inside—were still there and functioning despite what age and accident and force of circumstance may have done to hurt them.”
— Norman Rush, Subtle Bodies
Tagged: Who Are You Inside, Who Were You Before You Were Hurt, Are You Still The Same Person Inside
“Very good-looking people are as a rule more forgetful than the median. Their mothers start it and the world at large continues it, handing them things, picking things up for them, smoothing their vicinity out for them in every way. I on the other hand remember everything.”
— Norman Rush, Mating: A Novel
Tagged: The Downfall Of Beauty, Allowing Beauty To Carry You Through Life, The Benefit Of Being Average
“It was a standard fantasy when you fell in love to imagine you could go back in time and find your beloved growing up, appear there, save him or her, get together as adolescents, by magic, and go on together, fighting for one another, into old age, never wavering.”
— Norman Rush, Subtle Bodies
Tagged: Going Back In Time, Making Up For Lost Time, In Another World You Met Them At The Right Time, Timing Of Love
“For me love is like this: you're in one room or apartment which you think is fine, then you walk through a door and close it behind you and find yourself in the next apartment, which is even better, larger, more floorspace, a better view. You're happy there and then you go into the next apartment and close the door and this one is even better. And the sequence continues, but with the odd feature that although this has happened to you a number of times, you forget: each time your new quarters are manifestly better and each time it's breathtaking, a surprise, something you've done nothing to deserve or make happen. You never intend to go from one room onward to the next—it just happens. You notice a door, you go through, and you're delighted again.”
— Norman Rush, Mating: A Novel
Tagged: What Love Really Is, The Concept Of Falling In Love, Love Like A Succession Of Rooms
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