Quotes by Ben Marcus

Ben Marcus

A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.

Desperate

Failing

Language

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

Disorder

Information

World

Being with him was like being alone underwater – everything was slow; nothing counted; I could not be harmed; I would feel dry and cold when I resurfaced.

Like Being Alone

Love

Underwater

Eventually you stop paying attention to your own feelings when there’s nothing to be done about them.

Attention

Done

Feelings

I don’t like real places, but I don’t like imagined ones either. I feel like I’m looking for some mixture and it’s very hard for me to say because I like to use real place names because there’s an uncanny feeling to them, but at the same time I don’t ever really try to make them plausible. Sometimes I like to use them as a way to hide in plain sight a little bit, because to me a very exotic or imagined setting has a lot of weight and a lot of burden to it, and it doesn’t suit me, but a real place seems to have its own weird legacy, so I don’t know what the choice is?

Choices

Feelings

Real

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

Bigs

Dose

Grief

I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife’s a writer, too, and we can write for six hours a day and then play with the kids.

Kids

Summer

Writing

I’m an enormous fan of Thomas Bernhard’s books, and I like the relentless feeling in his work – the pursuit of darkness, the negative – and I think in some sense I’ve internalised that as what one is supposed to do.

Book

Darkness

Thinking

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.

Disappointment

Feels

Mystery

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.

Passion

Profound

Track

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Art

Attention

Balance

Bigs

Book

Care

Choices

Circles

Darkness

Desperate

Disappointment

Disorder

Done

Dose

Example

Failing

Feelings

Feels

Fiction

Grief

Hands

Information

Joy

Kids

Language

Like Being Alone

Lonely

Long

Love

Mistake

Misunderstood

Mouths

Mystery

Pain

Parent

Passion

People

Profound

Rain

Real

Safe

Space

Summer

Suspense

Sweet

Technology

Thinking

Track

Underwater

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Quotes by Ben Marcus

Ben Marcus

A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.

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

Being with him was like being alone underwater – everything was slow; nothing counted; I could not be harmed; I would feel dry and cold when I resurfaced.

Eventually you stop paying attention to your own feelings when there’s nothing to be done about them.

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

I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife’s a writer, too, and we can write for six hours a day and then play with the kids.

I’m an enormous fan of Thomas Bernhard’s books, and I like the relentless feeling in his work – the pursuit of darkness, the negative – and I think in some sense I’ve internalised that as what one is supposed to do.

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.

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.

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