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Listen: I'm OK cute. I'm no stunner.
Jami Attenberg
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In your 40s, you shed those who bring you down and surround yourself with the most positive people you know.
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What I try very hard to do is have an hour or so in the morning when I leave the house and don't have my phone with me. I'll go sit in a cafe and read and handwrite in my notebook and not be facing a screen. My head will be clear. I will be able to hear myself think. Because honestly for the rest of the day it's just screens, screens, screens.
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Your family is unavoidable. You cannot escape them or trade them in for another family. You also can't change them... but you can change your response to them.
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In 'The Odyssey,' every feast is extremely ritualized; high-status individuals even get a better cut of meat.
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In the wintertime I like macaroni and cheese.
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In addition to public housing, South Williamsburg is home to shabby artists' lofts like mine, apartments of Hasidic Jews, and one extremely tall, high-priced condo.
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I remember being banned from other houses as a younger child during the winter holiday season; I was the only one who didn't believe in Santa Claus, and I was ruining everyone's Christmas.
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Food and love are all intertwined at our core level. It can be a very nurturing, wonderful, loving thing.
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I know the bestseller 'Gone Girl' doesn't need an ounce of support from me, but that book was as sharp and witty as they come.
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No matter how much money I made from writing, I'd keep the bookstore job.
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Anything by Lorrie Moore speaks to a certain kind of person.
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