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Ifs Quotes by Miranda July

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Miranda July’s nine reflections on “ifs” weave her offbeat humor with a gentle curiosity about everyday moments. The brief anthology feels like a conversation with a friend who notices the strange possibilities in the mundane.

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If you read my short stories, there's a lot of sex in those in all different ways. To me, it's a really…

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I like embracing kind of normal forms but am always trying to approach them as if no one's ever done that before.…

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If you want to have a character who falls into crisis, all you have to do is turn the Internet off, and…

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If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why…

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I think it's more interesting if you go all the way with the world you have, and really look at it, and…

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You've got the people you know, which are problematic. Always. They're rich but they're also real people living their lives alongside you.…

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To get anything done, you used to have to brush past, or at least lay eyes on, someone whose reality was totally…

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Collections are certainly abundant online. It's complicated, because it's not like these people didn't want computers, although there was some nonchalance about…

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Very few women have become famous for being who they actually are, nuanced and imperfect. When honesty happens, it's usually couched in…

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“It wasn't good, he wasn't good, he did not have good intentions. I stood there, and he stood there. He breathed out the bitter…

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The whole thing of working in all these different mediums, it's just so that I can always be playing hooky from one of them.…

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The thing I am most interested in is power relations - it is so easy in a relationship like that [of an artist and…

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Are you angry? Punch a pillow. Was it satisfying? Not hardly. These days people are too angry for punching. What you might try is…

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It was a tiny sound but it woke me up because it was a human sound.

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I'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling.

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“We were anxious to begin our life as people who had no people. And it was easy to find an apartment because we had…

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I'm always the kind of friend or girlfriend who suggests, when there's some cataclysmic problem in the relationship, I'm like, "Well, maybe we can…

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I wrestle my fears with every big decision I make. Ultimately, maybe all that wrestling does is make you sick of your own thoughts,…

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When I had a baby, I was consumed with my body.

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I'm quite a cerebral person. Often I feel quite stuck in that.

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Somewhat predictably, I'm much more comfortable in front of an audience - and a big audience is even better - than faced with one…

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We humans are here because nothing can be perfect. There always have to be some living things that are unsatisfied, itchy, trying too hard.…

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