“... every chapter you write is surrounded by those you don't, every confession by what remains secret or indescribable or unremembered.”
― Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
― Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
“You furnish your mind with readings in somewhat the same way you furnish a house with books.”
― Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
― Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
“A manilla envelope came through the mail slot a few weeks later. I had a little queasiness about meeting that teenager directly, and so I waited several years to open it.”
― Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
― Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
“How do you make art when the art that's all around you keeps telling you to shut up and do the dishes?”
― Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
― Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
“In the myths, women keep turning into other things because being a woman is too difficult, too dangerous.”
― Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
― Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
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