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Ben Marcus
Ben Marcus
American Author
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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. Ben Marcus
Hope Religion Disappointment Science Mysteries Invest Feel Interested Explains Larger
Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect. Ben Marcus
Home You Behavior Control Consequences Deferred Bit Ourselves Out Bad Bad Behavior Detect Clear Terrible Mostly Without Test Motivated Motivation Lab Maybe Buried Public Much Less Harder Things
I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard. Ben Marcus
Grief Big Thomas Like Read Doses Richard
I love the way dates in a text make us think that truth will follow. Ben Marcus
Love Truth Will Think Way Follow Dates Make Text Us
When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level. Ben Marcus
Writing Fear Emotional Emotional Level Had Come Very Autobiographical Anything Realise Level Started
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. Ben Marcus
Work Darkness Negative Feeling Sense Think Enormous Thomas Books Relentless Some Pursuit Like Supposed His Fan
In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid, I find that I care about it, and it's part of me. Ben Marcus
Me Space Care Sense Unlock Way Unlocking Out Find Some Vivid About Part Prose Just Fiction
My goal, with whatever I'm working on, is to lose track of time. Ben Marcus
Time Lose Whatever Track Goal Working
My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives. Ben Marcus
Work Family Me Balance Example Parents Could Lives

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