"It's always a disappointing business confronting my own……" — Zoë Heller
"It's always a disappointing business confronting my own reflection. My body isn't bad. It's a perfectly nice, serviceable body. It's just that the external me- the study, lightly wrinkled, handbagged me- does so little credit to the stuff that's inside."
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Zoë Heller
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12 Quotes by Zoë Heller
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I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to…
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Somewhere between sanity and madness lays a fine line, for some it is a tightrope walked daily, a fight for…
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It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational…
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If everybody was so reverent of the institute of marriage, how did all the adultery get committed?
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Always mind the distance between your dreams and your reality.
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There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only…
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When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence.
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We are bound by the secrets we share.
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...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends , there's nothing left.
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It's similar to the way you feel cuddling an infant or a kitten, when you want to squeeze it so…
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I'm a child in that respect: able to live, physically speaking, on a crumb of anticipation for weeks at a…
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