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I felt like I could write about quiet, self-contained moments and also about those moments when the world rushes in again.
— Jenny Offill
What Kafka said: I write to close my eyes.
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The wife watched her neighbor get fat over the next year. The Germans have a word for that. Kummerspeck. Literally, grief bacon.
— Jenny Offill
Would you like to be a doctor when you grow up?" I ask her. She looks at me oddly. "I'm already a doctor," she says.
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Also she signed away the right to self-destruct years ago. The fine print on the birth certificate, her friends call it.
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Dizzying, this happiness.
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Mark Twain fell in love with his wife after he saw her picture painted on an ivory miniature the size of a fingernail.
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I never liked to hear the doorbell ring. None of the people I liked ever turned up that way.
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She thinks before she acts. Or more properly, she thinks instead of acts. A character flaw, not a virtue.
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Where did all the words go?" I asked."They just wasted away," my mom explained, " like a leg you never walk on. — Jenny Offill
I bought a warmer coat with many ingenious pockets. You put your hands in all of them.
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Here is what happens in middle age: Some friends and acquaintances who were merely eccentric for years become unmistakably mad.
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Sometimes she just stands and looks out the window where the people whose lives are intact enough not to have to take yoga live.
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Both have trouble working up the nerve to go into the Little Theater of Hurt Feelings.
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Evolution designed us to cry out if we are being abandoned. To make as much noise as possible so the tribe will come back for us.
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You know what's punk rock about marriage? Nothing. You know what's punk rock about marriage? All the puke and shit and piss.
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For years, I kept a Post-it note above my desk. WORK NOT LOVE! was what it said. It seemed a sturdier kind of happiness.
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My friend laughs. "I don't think they go with the way you dress." How do I dress? I wonder. Like a bus driver is the answer.
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Three things no one has ever said about me:You make it look so easy.
You are very mysterious.
You need to take yourself more seriously. — Jenny Offill
Life equals structure plus activity.
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If one day equaled the age of the universe, all of recorded history would be no more than ten seconds.
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When God is a father, he is said to be elsewhere. When God is a mother, she is said to be everywhere.
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Studies show that 110% of men who leave their wives for other women report that their wives are crazy. Darwin
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Out of dark waters, this.
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A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.
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Clothes are the only thing that separates us from animals," my mother said. "Clothes and a sense of shame.
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They used to send each other letters. The return address was always the same: Dept. of Speculation.
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We're married, remember? Nobody's breaking up with anybody.
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There is still such crookedness in my heart. I had thought loving two people so much would straighten it.
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You think you want the blue skies, the open road, but really you want the tunnel, you want to know how the story ends.
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But the smell of her hair. The way she clasped her hand around my fingers. This was like medicine.
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I tried to figure out if I felt calmer with a blanket over my head. No I did not was the answer.
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In Paris, even the subways are required to be beautiful.
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A boy stepping into the street and opening an umbrella for a girl keeping dry in the doorway.
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Are animals lonely? Other animals, I mean.
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There is a man who travels around the world trying to find places where you can stand still and hear no human sound.
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Anger looked like fireworks. Love was an indistinct blur.
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Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.
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But lately I'm like a beatnik in a movie. Fuck this bourgeois shit, baby! Let's be pure of heart again!
— Jenny Offill
These bits of poetry that stick to her like burrs.
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Found a book called Thriving Not Surviving in a box on the street. I stood there, flipping through it, unwilling to commit.
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