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I don't think that I would ever, while writing, think to myself, "I need a little more psychological realism."
— Curtis Sittenfeld
We have to make mistakes, it's how we learn compassion for others.
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She would say that we create our own reality-that the truth, ultimately, is what we choose to believe.
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Liz had tried not to experience the doubly insulting sting of being excluded by a person she didn't care for.
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You never know the nature of another couple's marriage, do you?
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I want to open myself up, I want to experience other dimensions, I don't want to be bound by the rules of this world. Does that make me a freak?
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I just write the books that I think I would want to read.
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My real frustration with Clara, I think, was that it seemed like she should be insecure but wasn't.
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I think my mother found her mother-in-law entertaining, and in a person who entertains us, there is much we forgive.
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The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.
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And how heartbreaking, because if it were all just a few degrees different, she is pretty sure they could be quite happy together.
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Anyone who's really interested in anything spends time alone.
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I guess I consider myself at times to have intuition.
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His ambitions exceed his talent.
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I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.
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If it's great reverence you're looking for, or earnest expressions of gratitude - well, then you don't work with kids.
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Being called baby: like safaris and bowling leagues, a phenomenon she never thought she'd experience first hand.
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Mr. Bennet stood, dropping his napkin on the table. As interesting as I find this conversation, an urgent matter has come up. I need a hamburger.
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get more stupider.
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My own preferences had little bearing on the outcome of events.
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The better you learn to take care of yourself, the less you settle for being around people who can't or won't treat you as well as you're accustomed.
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Nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.
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Oh, how different my life would have been had I not grown up in the same house with my grandmother, how much narrower and blander!
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I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.
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I think that there's some confusion in my own mind about what I believe.
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You don't need anyone else's approval or permission to enjoy the magic of writing.
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Of course a magazine is usually more interesting than a conversation, because so much more time and preparation has gone into it.
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Of course, I didn't imagine then that I could have had a real relationship with any guy. I thought that by virtue of being me I was disqualified.
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I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.
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Does being forty feel fabulous and foxy? Liz asked.
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It is not a camera, or a reporter that makes something real and genuine; more often a camera or a reporter does the opposite.
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When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.
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How quickly we damn ourselves when we start to talk, how small and inglorious we always sound.
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I feel like a lot of life is distasteful and embarrassing. And you just push through it. You fix what you can, and you let time pass.
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Only part you have to apologize for is getting me all horned up and then passing out, but I'll take a rain check
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There's a lot that's not explained about the universe. And psychic-ness is not stranger than that.
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Jane resembled nothing so much as a pregnant angel. She
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But I never thought of who he wasn't, I never had to explain or defend him to myself, I didn't even care what we talked about.
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There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.
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I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.
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I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.
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You know what her punishment is for tormenting you way back when?" he said.I looked at him.
He said, "her punishment is being her, — Curtis Sittenfeld
She really does like him, she likes lying next to him, she wants to be around him; when you get down to it, can you say that about many people?
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To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person.
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I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.
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Whatever you are, be a good one. -Curtis Sittenfeld (American Wife) — Curtis Sittenfeld
Ironically, writing a novel is not a way to sort out your confusion.
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It struck me as so hard to believe I was really getting what I wanted; it was always easier to feel the lack of something than the thing itself.
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It was one thingfor a person who didn't really know me to act distant, but it was quite another for someone to get to know me and then back away.
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She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.
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In life we're most hell-bent on proving things that we're not really sure are true.
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Sometimes it amazes me how much these defining parts of our lives hinge on chance.
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Long ago I had become my own confidant.
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In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book.
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But then I think how I grew sick of kissing him. How can you spend your life with a person you're sick of kissing?
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Children are nothing but a problem people create and then congratulate themselves on solving.
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Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.
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High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.
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I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.
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When you are a high school girl, there is nothing more miraculous than a high school boy.
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I have been granted the terrible privilege of deciding what would have happened with no one left to contradict me. And maybe I am absolutely wrong.
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I'm so trying to give up meat.
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I just like to inhabit a character really deeply.
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Mama!' Rosie tugged on my shirt. 'This broccoli is tasty and wonderful'.
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We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life.
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A reality show isn't unlike the Nobel Peace Prize, then," Mr. Bennet said. "In that they both require nominations.
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She might even have felt that self-congratulatory pride that heterosexual white people are known to experience due to proximate diversity.
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Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places.
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She wasn't wrong, which wasn't the same as the idea being a wise one.
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I feel like as I've gotten older I've unfortunately come to the decision that a lot of people who seem normal and boring maybe are normal and boring.
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Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.
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I think I would have liked to have been a twin. Sometimes my sisters and I get mistaken for twins, and I always take it as a compliment.
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I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.
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... it never comes down to a single thing you did or didn't do or say. You might convince yourself it did, but it didn't.
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For months I heard whispers and though it had seemed that they were carried to me on the wind, they were really coming from inside my own head.
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What greater happiness is there than the privilege of being bored together?
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There's no better investment than your cleavage." Charlotte smirked. "I believe they teach that in business school.
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Rudolph Walsh, you are my fierce advocate, and your wit and wisdom
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I'm not a Democrat because I haven't thought about the issues. I'm a Democrat because I have.
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I'm old enough to know that sometimes you don't get a second chance.
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The fact that I had no opinion on, for instance, relations between the U.S. And China did nit mean I didn't feel things.
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