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“ I used to be twenty. Then I was twenty-one, twenty-two, and so on. And then I became a mother and could no longer even distinguish the difference between twenty-one and twenty-two or the difference between thirty-eight and thirty-nine. ”

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Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a chair can do.

~ Sarah Manguso

Sarah Manguso Chairs Infinity Movement Possibility Reality

I read obituaries every day to learn what sorts of lives are available to us, to see an entire life compressed into a few column inches, to fit the whole story in my eye at once.

~ Sarah Manguso

Sarah Manguso Elegy Loss Obituaries

Today was very full, but the problem isn't today. It's tomorrow. I'd be able to recover from today if it weren't for tomorrow. There should be extra days, buffer days, between real days.

~ Sarah Manguso

Sarah Manguso Diary Documenting Memory Mental Health

To write a diary is to make a series of choices about what to omit, what to forget. A memorable sandwich, an unmemorable flight of stairs. A memorable bit of conversation surrounded by chatter that no one records.

~ Sarah Manguso

Sarah Manguso Diary Forgetting Memorable Memory Writing