“When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerous because I couldn't control what came through it.”

—  Nicole Krauss , book Great House

Source: Great House

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangero…" by Nicole Krauss?
Nicole Krauss photo
Nicole Krauss 65
American novelist 1974

Related quotes

Benazir Bhutto photo

“I put my life in danger and came here because I feel this country is in danger.”

Benazir Bhutto (1953–2007) 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan

At the rally in Rawalpindi after which she was assassinated. (27 December 2007)
Context: I put my life in danger and came here because I feel this country is in danger. People are worried. We will bring the country out of this crisis.

B.F. Skinner photo

“I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.”

B.F. Skinner (1904–1990) American behaviorist

As quoted in "Unpacking the Skinner Box : Revisiting B. F. Skinner through a Postformal Lens" by Dana Salter in The Praeger Handbook of Education and Psychology Vol. 4 (2008) edited by Joe L. Kincheloe and Raymond A. Horn, Ch. 99, p. 872.

Lord Dunsany photo

“It blew me wide open. It shifted me up into what I call the inter-dimensional mind.”

James Gilliland (1952) American academic and author

James describing his near-death experience.
Source: [Bures, Frank, Aliens, Anomalies, and Absurbity at Mt. Adams, The Portland Mercury, September 2001, http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Content?oid=25334&category=34029, 2007-03-01]

Ray Bradbury photo

“The monster cried out at the tower. The foghorn blew. The monster roared again. The foghorn blew. The monster opened its great toothed mouth, and the sound that came from it was the sound of the foghorn itself.”

The Foghorn, first published in The Saturday Evening Post (1951) with the title "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms"
The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)

Ryan Adams photo
Andy Warhol photo

“A lot of people thought it was me everyone at the 'Factory' was hanging around, that I was some kind of big attraction that everyone came to see, but that's absolutely backward: it was me who was hanging around everyone else. I just paid the rent, and the crowds came simply because the door was open. People weren't particularly interested in seeing me; they were interested in seeing each other. They came to see who came.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

1975 - 1987
Source: POPism (1980); as quoted in Warhol in his own words – Untitled Statements ( 1963 – 1987), selected by Neil Printz, in Andy Warhol, retrospective, Art and Bullfinch Press / Little Brown, 1989, pp. 457 – 467

Adolf Eichmann photo
Ben Carson photo

Related topics