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Steven Millhauser Quotes

All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.

Steven Millhauser (2011). “We Others: New & Selected Stories”, p.243, Vintage

God pity the poor novelist.

Steven Millhauser (2011). “Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright”, p.54, Vintage

Perhaps sound is only an insanity of silence, a mad gibber of empty space grown fearful of listening to itself and hearing nothing.

Steven Millhauser (2011). “Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright”, p.28, Vintage

We know nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Steven Millhauser (2015). “The Wizard of West Orange”, p.19, Vintage