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“What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?”
― Bertolt Brecht

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“The concept of privacy is a sort of screen to hide the fact that almost none is possible in a social universe.”
― Janet Malcolm, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

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“Life, of course, never gets anyone's entire attention. Death always remains interesting, pulls us, draws us.”
― Janet Malcolm, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

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“I looked like a woman in glasses, but I had dreams of leading a very different kind of life, the life of a woman who would not wear glasses, the kind of woman I saw from a distance now and then in a bar.”
― Lydia Davis, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

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“There are also men in the world. Sometimes we forget, and think there are only women—endless hills and plains of unresisting women. We make little jokes and comfort each other and our lives pass quickly. But every now and then, it is true, a man rises unexpectedly in our midst like a pine tree, and looks savagely at us, and sends us hobbling away in great floods to hide in the caves and gullies until he is gone.”
― Lydia Davis, Can't and Won't

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