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Mary Gaitskill Quotes

I don't know if I can say exactly what I seek in books, but one of them would be to deepen and expand my understanding of the world.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 11, 1954

Topics

World Understanding I Can Know Say

I spend a lot of my time just looking at words and grammar and writing things down that I don't know.

Time Words Writing Looking Down

I struggled to find an agency in London because no one knew whether they should put me in the men's board or the women's board. There was a lot of uncertainty about my commercial viability.

Women Men Me Uncertainty Find Knew

It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing.

Nice Irritated Joyous Very Thing

You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going.

Fear God Myself Day Me You

I never write to disappear and escape. The truth is exactly the opposite. Most people strike me as escaping and disappearing in one way or another - into their jobs, their daily routines, their delusions about themselves and others.

Steven Millhauser

Daily Truth People Me Truth Is Way

Life is full of trials and tribulations. It's dramatic when you don't treat people right when you're in the tribulations, but I know now how to get out of it. You have to make a decision to say 'No more', and then you know what to do when the trials happen.

Life Decision People Treat You Know

I'm in need of a man apron. A very manly apron.

Man Need Manly Very

I like marketplaces. I like train stations; I like being in trains. I like airports. I like walking down the street with a pen in my hand, writing, writing, writing.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Writing Walking Pen Down Train Hand

My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing.

Birthday Best Child Kiss Amazing Me

It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.

Rock Pity Landing Fathers Pilgrim

Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of events, time, peoples.

Time Will Events Handle Historians

Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.

Agriculture Discovery Group Size

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