You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small … - Rachel Cusk

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The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it. It's RUBBISH, death. It's STUPID. I don't want nothing to do with it.

Rachel Cusk

You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.

Lonely, Children, Reading, Precisely, Friends

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The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.

Fixed, Good, Mother, Reality, Wine

As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.

Average, Skin, Skins, Thing, Writers, Writing

As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew.

Being A Mother, Feelings, Motherhood, Sense, Sort, Women

That's writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn't turn up.

Passion, Space, Turn, Writing

I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs.

Jobs, People, University