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Rachel Cusk, born in 1967, is a distinguished British novelist. Her works are renowned for their unique narrative style and profound insights into modern life. Cusk's writing spans a range of themes including personal experience, family relationships, and social change, and has garnered widespread acclaim from readers.

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“There was, he added, a generalized yearning for the ideal of literature, as for the lost world of childhood, whose authority and reality tended to seem so much greater than that of the present moment. Yet to return to that reality even for a day would for most people be intolerable, as well as impossible: despite our nostalgia for the past and for history, we would quickly find ourselves unable to live there for reasons of discomfort, since the defining motivation of the modern era, he said, whether consciously or not, is the pursuit of freedom from strictness or hardships of any kind.”

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Book:Kudos

Source: Kudos

“There is a slovenly disrespect for truth and reality that has infected and cross-infected the arts; the values of entertainment are relentlessly in the ascendant, to the extent that it becomes virtually impossible to write a naturalistic fictional sentence without feeling that the fabric of that sentence is already compromised.”

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“Divorce also entails the beginning of a supposition that that familial reality might have obstructed one's ability to perceive others.”

Reality Might Ability Divorce Perceive Supposition

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“Reality might be described as the eternal equipoise of positive and negative.”

Reality Might Eternal Negative

Book:Outline: A Novel

Source: Outline: A Novel

“Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.”

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Author:Rachel Cusk

“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.”

Self Facts Reality Mother Values Fool Jokes Wine Glasses Obsession Fixed Unnecessary Outlook Expressive Hygiene Rigidity Unafraid Wine Glass Good Mother Bad Mother

Author:Rachel Cusk

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Born: 1967
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 114

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