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Perhaps this is how you know you're doing the thing you're intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel that it's a waste of time. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I take it you don't believe in love at first sight." "Does anyone over the age of thirteen? Do you?" "I don't, no," Darcy said. "But I don't rule out for others what I haven't experienced firsthand. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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My heart clutched - it was one of those moments when you feel time is a rug that's been yanked out from under you; everything around you has changed so gradually that it is only all at one you look up and realize how different your life has become. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I'd think, One of the times she leaves will be the last time I see her. It destroyed me. I didn't want us to have a last time, and that was how I realized I'd fallen in love with you. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I like it when characters are some combination of appealing and maybe flawed or self-interested. I think in terms of scenes, and what I want a scene to achieve, and I think that the psychological realism arises from that. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I wonder if they are the only three in the world: the man who is with you completely, the man who is with you but not with you, the man who will get as close to you as he can without ever becoming yours. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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Nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I felt an old, visceral insecurity that manifested itself in an impulse to cover up our cribbage game, to literally shield the board with my hands. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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By the time we met up again, she'd be able to hand her reaction to me as a tidy package: a single square of lasagna in a sealed Tupperware container as opposed to a squalid kitchen with tomato sauce splattered on the counters. And I wouldn't have to be there while she got it in order. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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When they left the bar, before parting ways in Port Authority, they stood on the corner of Forty-second Street and Seventh Avenue and continued talking; there were between them always an infinite number of subjects to be addressed and dissected, mulled over and mocked and revised. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I guess in life I find people who, at first glance, appear to be very typical or average, whatever that means, and then turn out to have hidden qualities. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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The better you learn to take care of yourself, the less you settle for being around people who can't or won't treat you as well as you're accustomed. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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At that time in my life, no conclusion was a bad conclusion. Something ended, and you stopped wishing and worrying. You could consider your mistakes, and you might be embarrassed by them, but the box was sealed, the door was shut, you were no longer immersed in the confusing middle. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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Mr. Bennet stood, dropping his napkin on the table. As interesting as I find this conversation, an urgent matter has come up. I need a hamburger. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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Was this what marriage was, the slow process of getting to know another individual far better than was advisable? Sometimes [his] gestures and inflections were so mercilessly familiar that it was as if he were an extension of me, an element of my own personality over which I had little control. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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Only part you have to apologize for is getting me all horned up and then passing out, but I'll take a rain check -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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There's a belief that to take care of someone else, or to let someone else take care of you - that both are inherently unfeminist. I don't agree. There's no shame in devoting yourself to another person, as long as he devotes himself to you in return. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I don't think that I would ever, while writing, think to myself, "I need a little more psychological realism." -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I think my mother found her mother-in-law entertaining, and in a person who entertains us, there is much we forgive. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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But I never thought of who he wasn't, I never had to explain or defend him to myself, I didn't even care what we talked about. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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She would say that we create our own reality-that the truth, ultimately, is what we choose to believe. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I just like to inhabit a character really deeply. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I actually liked the disolation of winter; it was the season when it was okay to be unhappy. If I were to ever kill myself, I thought it would be in the summer. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I feel like a lot of life is distasteful and embarrassing. And you just push through it. You fix what you can, and you let time pass. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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And I am pretty sure that's the point of reading fiction
so someone else can say in a way you never would have something you recognize immediately. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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And how heartbreaking, because if it were all just a few degrees different, she is pretty sure they could be quite happy together. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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Does being forty feel fabulous and foxy? Liz asked. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I'm so trying to give up meat. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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There's no better investment than your cleavage." Charlotte smirked. "I believe they teach that in business school. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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And I didn't yet understand that just because you can recognize what another person wants and just because that person is older and more powerful than you are, you don't have to give it to them. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I guess because twins have this mystique, and triplets - I think the normal sibling connection potentially can be very powerful, and there's this idea that it's even more powerful. It really is, not just someone like me, but another version of me. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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Whatever you are, be a good one.
-Curtis Sittenfeld (American Wife) -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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The fact that I had no opinion on, for instance, relations between the U.S. And China did nit mean I didn't feel things. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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There are people we treat wrong and later we're prepared to treat other people right. Perhaps this sounds mercenary, but I feel grateful for these trial relationships, and I would like to think it all evens out - surely, unknowingly, I have served as practice for other people. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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It would in retrospect appear to be a stop on a narrative path that was inevitable, but this is only because most events, most paths, feel inevitable in retrospect. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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There was a way in which my grandmother's true self was not these guests' business; no one's true self was the business of more than a very small number of family members or close friends. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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Mama!' Rosie tugged on my shirt. 'This broccoli is tasty and wonderful'. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I think adults forget just how much faith teenagers can have in them, just how willing to believe that adults, by virtue of being adults, know absolute truths, or that absolute truths are even knowable. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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Well
" My mother paused, and her tone was reflective in that way that is inevitably sad, because the past is sad. "What I remember," she said, "is that you were always such a dear little girl. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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If he didn't fully understand where I came from, he understood who I was now
he knew how well done I liked my steak, knew the color of my toothbrush, the expression I made when I realized I'd forgotten to roll up my car window before it rained. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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She wasn't wrong, which wasn't the same as the idea being a wise one. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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What greater happiness is there than the privilege of being bored together? -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I seriously think he's one of those dudes where, his whole life, he's gotten credit for being smart and moral for no reason other than he's tall. Anyway, -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I gave people the benefit of the doubt, thinking, so many people that appear very calm and even boring must have all these wild emotions and crazy ideas. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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It struck me as so hard to believe I was really getting what I wanted; it was always easier to feel the lack of something than the thing itself. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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Long ago I had become my own confidant. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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If I moved back, I'm sure I'd find some great place to live. I wouldn't have to make a reservation to take a spin class or wait in line just to get into the grocery store. But then I'd look up one day and be like, 'What the fuck have I done?' -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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... it never comes down to a single thing you did or didn't do or say. You might convince yourself it did, but it didn't. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I think I would have liked to have been a twin. Sometimes my sisters and I get mistaken for twins, and I always take it as a compliment. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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In life we're most hell-bent on proving things that we're not really sure are true. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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Anyone who's really interested in anything spends time alone. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I feel like as I've gotten older I've unfortunately come to the decision that a lot of people who seem normal and boring maybe are normal and boring. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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Jane resembled nothing so much as a pregnant angel. She -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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get more stupider. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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But then I think how I grew sick of kissing him. How can you spend your life with a person you're sick of kissing? -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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All things being equal, why not be married to a rich man? (Somewhere, Hannah thinks, there must be a needlepoint pillow asking this very question in a cleverer way.) -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I heard Gillian say, with a laugh, "At this point, does anyone expect the liberals not to be total hypocrites?" She was oblivious to the possibility that perhaps not everyone present shared her views, and I thought, You're sixteen. How can you already be a Republican? -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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He's a lawyer in Atlanta, and he's very active in his church," Mrs. Bennet said. "If that's not the description of a man looking for a wife, I don't know what is. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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Before and after ... I heard a thousand times that a boy, or a man, can't make you happy, that you have to be happy on your own before you can be happy with another person. All I can say is, I wish it were true. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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A reality show isn't unlike the Nobel Peace Prize, then," Mr. Bennet said. "In that they both require nominations. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of a character in a book that's by someone else. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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My real frustration with Clara, I think, was that it seemed like she should be insecure but wasn't. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I decided we should get married no more of this running-through-the-rain shit. We should live in the same place, sleep in the same bed at night, wake up together in the morning, and whenever there's a tornado, I can take care of you and watch Baseball at the same time. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given me the gifts of curiosity and sympathy, an awareness of the world as an odd and vibrant contradictory place, and it had me unafraid of its oddness and vibrancy and contradictions. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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It is not a camera, or a reporter that makes something real and genuine; more often a camera or a reporter does the opposite. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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And now I knew myself to be generous with encouragement only when I either did not want the thing the other person sought of did not believe the person would really get it. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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The tarps Ken Weinrich's crew used has yellow and royal blue stripes, not unlike those for a circus, and this had lent a festive yet undignified mood to the proceedings. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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It was one thingfor a person who didn't really know me to act distant, but it was quite another for someone to get to know me and then back away. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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Of course, I didn't imagine then that I could have had a real relationship with any guy. I thought that by virtue of being me I was disqualified. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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Fred!" the nurse said, though they had never met. "How are we today?" Reading the nurse's name tag, Mr. Bennet replied with fake enthusiasm, "Bernard! We're mourning the death of manners and the rise of overly familiar discourse. How are you? -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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As they sat, Kathy de Bourgh smiled and said, Now that we've both apologized within the first thirty seconds of our conversation about women and power, shall we begin? -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I guess I consider myself at times to have intuition. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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But she actually was glad to have identified the one thing about Jasper she'd change, because it was similar to realizing what you'd forgotten to take on a trip, and if it was only perfume, as opposed to your driver's license, you were relieved. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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If it's great reverence you're looking for, or earnest expressions of gratitude - well, then you don't work with kids. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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(as a single woman in my early thirties, I was careful not to coo excessively over other people's infants, lest it seem like I was telegraphing my desperation; the necessity of this precaution annoyed me, making me want to defiantly announce that I'd always liked babies, -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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At such moments, I felt that we were like the people in California who live in enormous houses on the sides of cliffs, ghat our lives were beautiful but precarious, their foundations vulnerable. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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If you're a parent in 2013, you have to get your hands on this book. Wise, engrossing, and so real that I fear Senior has been spying inside my house, All Joy is a must-read for those of us whose lives have been enriched and derailed by having kids. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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When you are a high school girl, there is nothing more miraculous than a high school boy. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then? -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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See, I always forget this about you," he says, and even now, long after we first lost our privacy, I can't help wondering who's overhearing him. "Every decade, you like to pin me to the ground, pull open my mouth, and take a sh** right into it. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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Her prettiness was factual and obvious, the way a flag was patriotic or a puppy was cute - not an interesting prettiness, but also not contingent on taste. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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People are complicated," she continued, "and the ones who aren't are boring."
"Then maybe I'm boring."
We looked at each other, and in a genuinely sad voice, she said, "Maybe you are. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I just write the books that I think I would want to read. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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It was generally less shocking to Liz that twenty years after high school she was still her essential self, the self she'd grown up as, unencumbered by spouse or child, than that nearly everyone else had changed, moved on, and multiplied. After -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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If a man wants to be romantically involved with you, he tries to kiss you. That's the entire story, and if he doesn't kiss you, there is never a reason to wait around for him. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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For months I heard whispers and though it had seemed that they were carried to me on the wind, they were really coming from inside my own head. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I have been granted the terrible privilege of deciding what would have happened with no one left to contradict me. And maybe I am absolutely wrong. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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Maybe I have always been, as Vi would subsequently accuse me, someone who creates obstacles for myself than looks around in surprise, wondering where they came from. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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Such compliments
they were thrilling but almost impossible to absorb in this quantity, at this pace. It was like she was being pelted with magnificent hail, and she wished she could save the individual stones to examine later, but they'd exist with such potency only now, in this moment. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I want to open myself up, I want to experience other dimensions, I don't want to be bound by the rules of this world. Does that make me a freak? -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement. To spend a Saturday afternoon mopping your kitchen floor while listening to opera on the radio, and to go that night to an Indian restaurant with a friend and be home by nine o'clock - these are enough. They are gifts. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I won't claim I've never in my life done anything I'm ashamed of, but I haven't done anything for a good while. If not everyone would agree with the decisions I've made, that's fine. What other people think has never made a situation right or wrong. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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She nodded, jotting something in her notebook.
You're writing that down? Has the interview started?
Lee, whenever you're talking to a reporter, you're being interviewed. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I decided that I wanted to say to Sin-Jun, I like your skirt. But sometimes speaking is so hard! It's like standing still, then sprinting. I kept rehearsing the sentence in my head, examining it for flaws. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I had the fleeting thought then that we are each of us pathetic in one way or another, and the trick is to marry a person whose patheticness you can tolerate. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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But I was living my life sideway. I did not act on what I wanted, I did not say the things I thought, and being so stifled and clamped all the time left me exhausted; no matter what I was doing, I was always imagining something else. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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If you knew where your happiness came from, it gave you patience. You realized that a lot of the time, you were just waiting out a situation, and that took the pressure off; you no longer looked to every interaction to actually do something for you. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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Approaching each other, him from the gym, me from the library- this was when I walked down the aisle and he was waiting, this was when we made love, it was every anniversary, every reunion in an airport or train station, every reconciliation after a quarrel. This was the whole of our lives together. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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How quickly we damn ourselves when we start to talk, how small and inglorious we always sound. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I think that there's some confusion in my own mind about what I believe. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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His ambitions exceed his talent. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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If I'm at somebody's house and they have magazines on the table and people are chatting, I feel almost a physical urge to start reading the magazines instead of talking to people. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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Sometimes it amazes me how much these defining parts of our lives hinge on chance. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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Time seemed, as it always does in adulthood after a particular stretch has concluded, no matter how ponderous or unpleasant the stretch was to endure, to have passed quickly indeed. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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Rudolph Walsh, you are my fierce advocate, and your wit and wisdom -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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You don't make waves unless there's a reason, and it better be good. Because once you do, that's it. You're a trouble make, and they never think of you any other way. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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Oh, how different my life would have been had I not grown up in the same house with my grandmother, how much narrower and blander! -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I have always found it peculiar, to say the least, when conservatives, especially conservative men, make these particular issues their ideological focus; there is something suspect to me about individuals who devote enormous amounts of time and attention dos objects they profess to find repugnant -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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She might even have felt that self-congratulatory pride that heterosexual white people are known to experience due to proximate diversity. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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To be a person who sees a political ad on television and takes the statements in it as fact, how can you exist in this world? How is it you're not robbed daily by charlatans who knock at your door? -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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Liz had tried not to experience the doubly insulting sting of being excluded by a person she didn't care for. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I'm old enough to know that sometimes you don't get a second chance. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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In my expectation that good fortune will lead inextricably to its reversal, I should note that I don't think I'm less deserving of happiness than anyone else; it is that in an unequal world, nobody deserves the privileges I enjoy. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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There's a lot that's not explained about the universe. And psychic-ness is not stranger than that. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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It's hard to imagine him angry without them. It must be like watching a game show by yourself, how calling out the answers feels silly and pointless. What is fury without witnesses? Where's the tension minus an audience to wonder what you'll do next? -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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You don't need anyone else's approval or permission to enjoy the magic of writing. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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You know what her punishment is for tormenting you way back when?" he said.
I looked at him.
He said, "her punishment is being her, -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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Ironically, writing a novel is not a way to sort out your confusion. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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Being called baby: like safaris and bowling leagues, a phenomenon she never thought she'd experience first hand. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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Children are nothing but a problem people create and then congratulate themselves on solving. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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She really does like him, she likes lying next to him, she wants to be around him; when you get down to it, can you say that about many people? -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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My own preferences had little bearing on the outcome of events. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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You never know the nature of another couple's marriage, do you? -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go really deeply inside people's lives and inside their personal experiences. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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Of course a magazine is usually more interesting than a conversation, because so much more time and preparation has gone into it. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I'm not a Democrat because I haven't thought about the issues. I'm a Democrat because I have. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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We have to make mistakes, it's how we learn compassion for others. -- Curtis Sittenfeld