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Our parents had Ph.D.s, but we were dirty ragamuffin children. I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely. Rachel Kushner

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I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,'_ 'tender' or 'universal.' But to the real question of what's inside: I avoid books that seem to conservatively follow stale formulas. I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that. Rachel Kushner

I got all my politics and culture and my sense of the great wide world of adults from 'Mad Magazine.' But all other comic books literally gave me a headache. Rachel Kushner

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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light. Rachel Kushner

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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary. Rachel Kushner

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I know a little bit about motorcycles and motorcycle riding. Rachel Kushner

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The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects. Rachel Kushner

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I have crashed on a motorcycle that was going at 140mph, so I know what it feels like. Rachel Kushner

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My dad had a Vincent Black Shadow, which was a quite particular thing: it was the fastest cycle of its era... It sparked a world for me; when I was old enough, I got a motorcycle. Rachel Kushner

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I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appeal. I think she's trying to replicate for herself an experience that she sees men having. Rachel Kushner

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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse. The art world is filled with vibrancy. Rachel Kushner

A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political. Rachel Kushner

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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics. Rachel Kushner

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