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It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.

~Ben Marcus

Topics: Accountability Allowed Amazes Kids Little Me Much Often Parents Power Raise Very

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Among other things, autoimmune disorders are an induction into a world of unstable information and no reliable expertise.

~Ben Marcus

Topics: Among Disorders Expertise Information Other Reliable Things Unstable World

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In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, our tiny minds can't possibly comprehend Him. If we find ourselves comprehending Him, then we can be sure we're off track.

~Ben Marcus

Topics: Because Certain Comprehend Contemplation Elusive Find Forever God Him Judaism Know Meant Meant To Be Minds Off Our Ourselves Passion Possibly Profound Strains Sure Then Tiny Track You

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The common, the quotidian, is so much more unyielding to me, really stubborn and hard to work with, and I like this because it makes me think and it makes me worry. I can't just plunge my hand into the meat of it. I need new approaches.

~Ben Marcus

Topics: Approaches Because Common Hand Hard Just Like Makes Me Meat More Much Need New Plunge Really Stubborn Think Work Worry

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I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.

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Topics: Disappointment Explains Feel Hope Interested Invest Larger Mysteries Religion Science

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I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.

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Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.

~Ben Marcus

Topics: Bad Bad Behavior Behavior Bit Buried Clear Consequences Control Detect Harder Home Lab Less Maybe Mostly Motivated Motivation Much Ourselves Out Public Terrible Test Things Without You

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I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard.

~Ben Marcus

Topics: Big Doses Grief Like Read Richard Thomas

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I love the way dates in a text make us think that truth will follow.

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Topics: Dates Follow Love Make Text Think Truth Us Way Will I Love

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When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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