Mary Gaitskill Quotes

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• The only way to know whats possible is to venture past impossible.
• But now all the natural secrets have been exposed, and it is likely that the turtles have been sold to laboratory scientists who want to…
• Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood,don't write fiction.
• The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response.
• She disapproved, but part of her seemed secretly to sympathize with the sickness. It was like she thought everybody had it, and the best you…
• The hurts of childhood that must be avenged: so small and so huge.
• I think people try to make the most of their time on earth and also to fix their time on earth. They try to fix…
• Of course there’s something there; unfortunately, there’s always something ‘there.’ Something you will one day be sorry you saw.
• My ambition was to live like music.
• He had lunch with Cecilia that afternoon. They ate their corned beef on rye and cream cheese with lox in a diner peopled by waiters…
• Dani said this woman, with whom she’d lived for two years, had never known her. “I feel like people accept the first thing I show…
• Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit,…
• 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…
• When he held her that way, she felt so happy that it disturbed her. After he left, it would take her hours to fall asleep,…

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