American - Writer | May 17, 1978 -
The social scene at the Harvard I knew was outside the rules of literature. It was less poignant.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
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I tried to find a social niche at Harvard - a group, my group - but I was unsuccessful.
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My mother is an artist, my father an entrepreneur.
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I don't like catching myself in the mirror because it's like, 'Oh, self.'
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Sometimes it's nice of someone to tell you what you smell like.
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You can have a value system and be unable to totally live it.
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Three months before he died, I began to steal things from my father's house. I wandered around barefoot and slipped objects into my pockets. I took blush, toothpaste, two chipped finger bowls in celadon blue, a bottle of nail polish, a pair of worn patent-leather ballet slippers, and four faded white pillowcases the color of old teeth.
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In the spring of 1978, when my parents were 23, my mother gave birth to me on their friend Robert's farm in Oregon with the help of two midwives. The labor and delivery took three hours, start to finish.
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By the time I was seven, my mother and I had moved 13 times.
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Until I was two, my mother supplemented her welfare payments by cleaning houses and waitressing. My father didn't help.
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Looking at font serifs is fun.
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It's not a fun thing to be the person set up in opposition to the work everyone loves.
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