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" We're all walking around trying to deal with a certain amount of shame, to repress it. And we restrict our mental lives to smaller and smaller areas. "
Deborah Eisenberg
Deal
Walking
Trying
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" I had written a story. I wrote the story out of some desperation, really, and I didn't know I was writing a story, and it took me years. And when I finished, a friend of mine had the idea that the story should be read as a monologue in a theater. "
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Story
Friend
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" I would like to never ever think about any political issues. "
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Never
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" I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a collection. "
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Stories
Thought
" It's much easier to read the stories that have a lot of dialogue; of course, they flow much more easily into speech. "
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Speech
More
" Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all fiction involves relationships between people, and relationships between people always include matters of power, of equity, of communication. "
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Away
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" I actually came to New York because it was very tolerant. You know, it seems preposterous, ludicrous thing to say in an interview, but I came for the anonymity particularly. "
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Writer
Waste
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Little
First
" I happen to be a 64-year-old woman who lives in Manhattan, so on and so forth, but am I the sum total of my sort of bodily coordinates? Well, of course not. "
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