{"author":"Rachel Kushner","author_id":"Rachel+Kushner","total_quotes":22,"quotes":[{"text":"I have enormous respect for people who are gifted mechanics.","author":"Rachel Kushner","tags":["people","gifted","mechanics "],"id":4706,"author_id":"Rachel+Kushner"},{"text":"All you can do is involve yourself totally in your own life, your own moment, Lonzi said. And when we feel pessimism crouching on our shoulders like a stinking vulture, he said, we banish it, we smother it with optimism. We want, and our want kills doom.","author":"Rachel Kushner","tags":["doom","life","optimism","pessimism","want"],"id":8325,"author_id":"Rachel+Kushner"},{"text":"What happens slowly carries in each part the possibility of returning to what came before. In an accident everything is simultaneous, sudden, irreversible. It means this: no going back.","author":"Rachel Kushner","tags":["accident","irreversible","possibility","sudden"],"id":57775,"author_id":"Rachel+Kushner"},{"text":"Who knew why they waited, I thought, understanding that I, too, had it in me to wait. To expect change to come from outside, to concentrate on the task of meeting it, waiting to meet it, rather than going out and finding it.","author":"Rachel Kushner","tags":["change","waiting"],"id":61535,"author_id":"Rachel+Kushner"},{"text":"Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.","author":"Rachel Kushner","tags":["music","favorite","orchestra "],"id":122219,"author_id":"Rachel+Kushner"},{"text":"A forced contemplation of the heavens, crisp and angelic blue, a classic prelude to death.","author":"Rachel Kushner","tags":["death","prose"],"id":165207,"author_id":"Rachel+Kushner"},{"text":"The Seventies seemed like this really open time. There were a lot of strong women characters deciding what kind of artists they wanted to be.","author":"Rachel Kushner","tags":["time","strong","kind "],"id":207865,"author_id":"Rachel+Kushner"},{"text":"Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in taste.","author":"Rachel Kushner","tags":["art","people","safety","shooting","taste"],"id":210716,"author_id":"Rachel+Kushner"},{"text":"If your parents died suddenly, Sandro understood, your home was wherever you were, and now you were from nowhere. Your parents were your provenance. Dead, you had no provenance.","author":"Rachel Kushner","tags":["family","identity"],"id":227941,"author_id":"Rachel+Kushner"},{"text":"My dad had a Vincent Black Shadow, which was a quite particular thing: it was the fastest cycle of its era... It sparked a world for me; when I was old enough, I got a motorcycle.","author":"Rachel Kushner","tags":["motorcycle","shadow","world "],"id":232984,"author_id":"Rachel+Kushner"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}