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She was starved hurting limbs.
— Mary Gaitskill
Things are always less important once you're assured of having them.
— Mary Gaitskill
Of course there's something there; unfortunately, there's always something 'there.' Something you will one day be sorry you saw.
— Mary Gaitskill
For two people to satisfy everything each needs for their entire lives is a tall order. Some couples may be equipped to do this. Some are not.
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I had really wanted adventure. At the time that I ran away, lots of kids ran away from home. It was something of a social phenomenon.
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Today I'm Yours. It was a crude and romantic song. But human feeling is crude and romantic.
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Writing requires an intense inner focus, and sometimes you need to express outward, physically or socially.
— Mary Gaitskill
I have to have dinner with my mother at nine and after that I won't be fit for human society.
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My ambition was to live like music.
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I didn't start thinking about what I wanted to do professionally until I was 17. I was a hippie, but I did write.
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The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response.
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I remember the time I said, 'I don't think you love yourself. You need to learn to love yourself.'
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At times she had thought that this was the only kind of connection you could have with people - intense, inexplicable and ultimately incomplete.
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I didn't want to keep forcing myself to grind out book after book.
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I remember back in the '90s, I used to feel criticized by women for not having children. Like there must be something wrong with me.
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It's true that your environment influences how you write.
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Anne Frank's diary made a very big impression on me at age 12 or so.
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The only way to know whats possible is to venture past impossible.
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The first person to blow up my fashion consciousness was a 14-year-old girl named Sandrine. She was the most beautiful human I had ever seen.
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He longed for a dim-eyed little slut with a big, bright mouth and black vinyl underwear.
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He was beginning to see her as a locked garden that he could sneak into and sit in for days, tearing the heads off the flowers.
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I believe that the truest parts of people can be buried, and for many different reasons.
— Mary Gaitskill
You can't tell an 18-year-old to keep it down and turn off Britney Spears or whatever it is that they listen to.
— Mary Gaitskill
I think once you write fiction, you put it out, and it can be interpreted in a variety of ways, some of which are going to be shocking to the writer.
— Mary Gaitskill
Sometimes I decide I don't want to write because it isn't the thing for me to be doing right then, and I go do something else.
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It's nothing serious," he said. "It's just an obsession.
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I didn't like horses when I was a kid.
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What are you thinking? She asks.-That you are beautiful. That not everyone could see it. I almost became the kind of person who could not. — Mary Gaitskill
There are no pure people.
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I think people try to make the most of their time on Earth and also to 'fix' their time on Earth.
— Mary Gaitskill
Everybody wanted to be depressed. But your depression was supposed to be funny, too, and that was what had proved too much for Dolores.
— Mary Gaitskill
Feel like the bright past is coming through the gray present and I want to look at it one more time.
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The hurts of childhood that must be avenged: so small and so huge.
— Mary Gaitskill
When looking out the window and watching the water becomes a drama, then literally everything is a drama.
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Stories mimic life like certain insects mimic leaves and twigs.
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I had a strong conviction that there was something out there in the world that was wonderful.
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I wasn't ever anybody who had a political thing against marriage, but I just thought, 'Why would I want to do that?'
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My first and strongest memories about perfume come from childhood, from my mother, and they are a complex blend of her private and public selves.
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I feel I'm often misunderstood by critics. People project a lot or exaggerate the subjective fragility simply because it's frightening to them.
— Mary Gaitskill
Valiantly, he tried to bring his soul to life in the small thing through which it had to live, and it was crushed, again and again.
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I don't know if I can say exactly what I seek in books, but one of them would be to deepen and expand my understanding of the world.
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