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Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle (b.1990) is the author of AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A MARGUERITE (Hue & Cry Press, 2014) and NOSTALGIA HAS RUINED MY LIFE (Giramondo Publishing, 2021). Her work has appeared in publications such as Best NZ Poems, Landfall, and Muumuu House. She currently lives in Melbourne, Australia.

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	Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life 3.68 avg rating — 687 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sport 47: New Zealand New Writing 2019 by Tayi Tibble, Aimee-Jane Anderson-O’Connor, Hana Pera Aoake 4.46 avg rating — 26 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Autobiography of a Marguerite 4.38 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hue & Cry Issue Eight Holidays by Chloe Lane (Editor), Andrea Bell (Editor), Nick Austin liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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People with No Charisma

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by Marguerite Duras

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Sanity, Madness and the Family: Families of Schizophrenics

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Quotes by Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle (?)

“Someone said they were surprised when they met me because I actually smiled a lot in person.”
― Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle, Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life

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“But in the middle of brunch my aunt turns to me to say, ‘So, do you have any hobbies?’ Well, I don’t make art anymore, I just have disappointing relationships. All of my emails sound like I wrote them with a knife held at my throat.”
― Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle, Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life

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Zarah’s Quotes

“I don’t write in the morning, my brain isn’t up to it yet, I don’t write in the afternoon, I’m too sad, I write from five o’clock on, I need to have been awake a long time, my body relaxed from a day’s fatigue.”
― Édouard Levé, Autoportrait

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“When I am coming back from a trip, the best part isn’t going through the airport or getting home, but the taxi ride in between: you’re still travelling, but not really.”
― Édouard Levé

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“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Rumi

tags: inspirational-love, misattributed

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