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" I like to amuse myself. "
Lydia Millet
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" You're lucky if people like your book, and the more people that like it, the luckier I feel. "
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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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