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"In the biggest and the smallest I sleep but at the same place I stay."

"It was suggested that I take a recording test. I passed, was liked and, well, you know the rest of the story."
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"Mother believed that I should have an enormous amount of sleep, and so I was never really tired when I went to bed. This was the best time of day, when I could lie in the vague twilight, drifting off to sleep, making up dreams inside my head the way they should go."

"The author says the mark of a true rest your creature is an inability to be still without a kind of resignation."
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"I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them."


"I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God."


"I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave."


"I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City ."


"Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiing you can do for seven hours."


"The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode."


"I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to."
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