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Checkout quotes by Claire Messud on Work

• ‟ I went around in my teens and early 20s thinking that life was a con trick. I had managed to grow up believing in all sorts of romantic ideas about hard work and justice and truth, and it seemed the real world was much more complicated and shaded than I wanted to believe.

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• ‟ The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

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• ‟ The effort to create a work of art that is true and potentially lasting, that is the very best work of art you can create at that point in your life - a book that may only reach or move a few people but will seem to those people somehow transformative. That's the ideal; that's always the motivation.

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• ‟ I'd wish for my work to be remembered rather than myself.

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• ‟ Because we moved so much, I was always having to adapt and work out the lay of the land. So I felt envious of those who did not have to try.

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• ‟ I actually did work and produced two short dissertations, one on Faulkner and one on the film criticism of the stream-of-consciousness novelist Dorothy Richardson.

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