American - Novelist | December 5, 1968 -
I wanted to write about this tropical honeymoon in part because I had the most drastically terrible honeymoon.
Lydia Millet
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The Free Body Culture gave me a gift I might never have received had I refused to play along. It left me with an acute sense of the absurd - one I still cherish - to be there among my fellow apes, awkward and less than half-willing, aiming and missing, leaping, landing and wincing.
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When I was 16, I went to Berlin - West Berlin, since at that time a wall still divided the city - to live for three months with a family on an exchange program.
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I came to understand that a German nudist, in 1984, loved little more than to work on his or her tan.
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At 16, I was more resilient and easygoing than I am now.
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I worry about the very pernicious way we elevate and separate ourselves from other beasts, the way we rationalize our comfort and ease, our worship of the self, as healthy. It's enticing, but with a terrible taint of evil.
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I used to try to write around the edges, but now I try to walk a more direct line.
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Snark describes a cynical position, and I'm not interested in that.
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I love irony.
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I think the best fiction is a form of psychological suspense, even though I don't really write in that idiom.
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It seems to me that the time for subtlety in our American life has passed.
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Do we seek delicate phraseology in politics or other forms of public life? We do not.
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