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‘i can never manage to be chic. i try it as a joke sometimes, but it never sticks. any more critiques for me?’
‘girls don’t smoke marlboros,’ i said.
‘what’s the difference? one tastes as bad as another’.

‘i wanted to go to an absolutely ordinary public school. an ordinary school with ordinary people where i could relax and have fun like an ordinary teenager. … all i could think of was getting out.’

‘the others in the dorm thought i wanted to be a writer, because i was always alone with a book, but i had no such ambition. there was nothing i wanted to be’