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Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood, don't write fiction.

— Mary Gaitskill

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Of course there's something there; unfortunately, there's always something 'there.' Something you will one day be sorry you ever saw.

If you are in enough pain, you may not remember who or what you are; you may know only your suffering, which is immense.

Everybody wanted to be depressed. But your depression was supposed to be funny, too, and that was what had proved too much for Dolores.

To be human is finally to be a loser, for we are all fated to lose our carefully constructed sense of self, our physical strength, our health, our precious dignity, and finally our lives.

My ambition was to live like music.

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