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Claire Messud is an American novelist and literature and creative writing professor. She is best known as the author of the novel The Emperor's Children . Wikipedia  

✵ 8. October 1966
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Claire Messud Quotes

“Above all, in my anger, I was sad. Isn't that always the way, that at the heart of the fire is a frozen kernel of sorrow that the fire is trying -- valiantly, fruitlessly -- to eradicate.”

Claire Messud

Source: The Woman Upstairs

“I've discovered over the years that the simplest explanation is almost always the right one; and that hunger of one kind or another - desire, by another name - is the source of almost every sorrow.”

Claire Messud

Source: The Woman Upstairs

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