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" Royalty mostly seem like members of some anachronistic faith, like the Amish, peculiar in gilded buggies. "
Stacey D'Erasmo
Amish
Some
Seem
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" In my family, we were on again off again Unitarians, partly because my father, raised Roman Catholic, had had enough of church. "
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" A performer needs and craves a live audience. "
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" What interests me are the complexities and contradictions and struggles and joys of messy human beings. "
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" A lot of first novels are coming-of-age stories. A lot are autobiographical. "
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" One of the first times that I went into a book store and saw a bunch of my books, my impulse was to put them all under my coat and run away so that no one else could see them, even though, of course, I wanted everyone to see them. "
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" I never thought much about God, certainly never wondered whether God was thinking about me, until I fell in love with a Zen Buddhist priest. "
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Thinking
Never
" As for me, I've been in love with women and men. I get how people fall in love with different kinds of people, but to fall in love with God: I didn't get that. "
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" The second time is the one we remember, where memory begins. Putting the moments in order is only half the story. What matters is the weight of the moments as they accumulate. "
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" In each medium - popular music, literature, and visual art, respectively - the woman has broken form, shed a skin, with each phase of her career, whereas the man has returned to ever-deepening iterations of the sound or sentence or imagery with which he began. "
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" In my darker moments, I feel like the Queen of England, bound and gagged by reverence. Tin-crowned and irrelevant. "
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" Readers, like writers, are essentially amoral. Arm's length will never do. We want to get closer. "
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Like
Never
" Prior to the institutionalization of standard time, clocks were set using local meridians or local mean time, and they varied widely. "
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Mean
Local
" In her previous novels, Maggie O'Farrell has often measured the distance between intimates and the unexpected intimacy of distance - geographic, temporal, cultural. In 'The Hand That First Held Mine' and 'The Distance Between Us,' characters separated by many miles or many years turn out to be joined in ways they never anticipated. "
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Never
Her
Distance
" My books - I kid you not - are very often shelved between DeLillo and de Sade. Which not only completely cracks me up, but it seems like an encouraging message from the universe: between those two, there's a lot of wiggle room. I feel just fine there. "
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Feel
Kid
" One of the things I've always loved about queer culture is the openness and passionate curiosity about love, desire and the myriad forms of affectionate ties. "
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Curiosity
" Historians of European royalty have written of the king's 'two bodies' : one mortal and corrupt; the other divine, abstract and timeless. "
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Two
King
" There are more clocks than ever - clocks on computers, on cell phones, on televisions, on any screen available, telling time to the digital second - but they all seem to matter less. "
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Digital
Matter
Phones
" I'm not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges - which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it. "
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Parenting
Nature
Challenges
" All writers are magpies, right? We're always stealing bits from different places and then weaving them into our little nest. "
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Stealing
Right
" For the Supreme Court, the right for everyone to say 'I do' is where the story ends, but for artists, it's where the story just starts to get interesting. "
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" I don't know if my faith stems from what I'd call unconditional love, but the energy certainly feels boundless. "
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" The spirits of Havelock Ellis, Magnus Hirschfeld and Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebbing waft through the text to lend 'The Third Sex' an air of scientific authority. "
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Air
Spirits
" I'm embarrassed to reveal that I never went to CBGB's in the '80s. I was never cool enough to be a punk, and I wouldn't have had the stamina, or the discipline, for straight-edge. "
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Cool
Never
" Emotional grandeur, rendered in the vernacular, has been Mona Simpson's forte. In her novels, 'Anywhere but Here,' 'The Lost Father' and 'A Regular Guy,' Simpson wrote wide and long and high about the most profound human bonds: parents and children lost each other, found each other, lost each other again, but differently. "
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Long
Parents
" On a deeper level, there's a level of privacy that I need in order to work, and if there's been a time when there's been a lot of publicness in my life, it can be a little bit difficult to sort of rebuild that private space. "
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Space
Time
" There is no such thing as a natural fit between form and content. Seamless elegance would be tantamount to erasure. "
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Elegance
Content
Fit
" You can conclude from the glossy surfaces of 'The L Word' that L stands for latte or Lexus and stop there. Or you can notice that in some of its less flashy moments, the show has staked a claim on Large - as in a larger, denser, more ambivalent imaginary world, populated by imperfect and riveting citizens of all sexual stripes. "
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" The ambition of 'Ten Thousand Saints,' Eleanor Henderson's debut novel about a group of unambitious lost souls, is beautiful. In nearly 400 pages, Henderson does not hold back once: she writes the hell out of every moment, every scene, every perspective, every fleeting impression, every impulse and desire and bit of emotional detritus. "
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Ambition
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" I don't go online when I'm writing - that's the devil's workshop - but in general, I'm on there as much as any other global citizen. "
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