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Koren Zailckas has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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For the first month of school, writing is its own upper. Pounding on my computer keys feels like playing the piano, like…
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I dont know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, its always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon,…
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I once heard someone say that the concept of moderation seems a little extreme, and tonight...I agree.
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I’ve been thinking I’d like to be Daisy; I’d like to have someone like Gatsby stare at my house for whole years…
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I'm sick of the ignorance that lack of funding has generated, of the fathers who apporach me at dinner parties with their…
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But lately, when I’m drunk, I feel a hostility that I’ve never known before. It is a tension deep in my gut…
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Me? I'm just a literary girl gone wrong. Slow with the tongue. Quick with the pen. Undeniably cute. But, on the whole,…
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Without a bottle to hold, I feel incomplete, the way Plato says we are each born only half a circle, and we…
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I am aware that somewhere along the line, I've subconsciously turned down the pitch of my speech, like a silencer of a…
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I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing…
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There's a limit to my patience with anything that smacks of metaphysics. I squirm at the mention of "mind expansion" or "warm…
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My demeanor isn't that of a woman enraged. To see me slumped, glassy-eyed, holding a sandwich someone has cut for me into…
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