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“To this day, watching a woman mindlessly tend to one thing while doing something else absorbs me. Like securing the backs of her earrings while wiggling her feet into her shoes. Like staring into some middle distance, where lines soften, and where she separates the relevant from the immaterial.”
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
“And then I think I don't need to write anything down ever again. Nothing's gone, not really. Everything that's ever happened has left its little wound.”
― Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
― Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
“The best ideas outrun me. That’s why I write.”
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
“It seemed both proper and at the same time deeply unfair that so much of life was left to chance.”
― Small Things Like These
― Small Things Like These
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