Darin Strauss Quotes


Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble.


Citations

Strauss, Darin. Half a Life. McSweeney's, 2010, p. 119.

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Darin Strauss
Darin Strauss
  • Born: March 1, 1970
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Author

Darin Strauss is a best-selling American writer whose work has earned a number of awards, including, among numerous others, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Strauss's 2011 book Half a Life, won the 2011 NBCC Award for memoir/autobiography. His most recent book, The Queen of Tuesday, came out in August, 2020. It is currently nominated for the Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize. (Winner to be announced in April, 2021.)