Rachel Kushner Quotes

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

Everything is true and not true about everything. That’s one thing I’ve learned.

The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction.

the truth is often a mixed message

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

Whatever you say it is, it isn't.

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'

The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

History, as well as life itself, is complicated; neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

There are gray areas in everything.

Reality isn't straightforward or easily accessible.

In my long experience, one thing I know is that truth is elusive.

The truth often sounds paradoxical.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .

Everything is true, and nothing is true!

Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe.

There is always room for at least two truths.