My ambition was to live like music. - Mary Gaitskill

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Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood, don't write fiction.

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Of course there's something there; unfortunately, there's always something 'there.' Something you will one day be sorry you ever saw.

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Dani said this woman, with whom she'd lived for two years, had never known her. "I feel like people accept the first thing I show them," she said, "and that's all I ever am to them."

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