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When you seek out - or seek to avoid - your own reflection, the modern city becomes a hall of mirrors: car windows, reflective walls, and plate glass are everywhere, transmitting a cacophony of different versions of you - this one too short, that one too wide, another one with a sickly color you've never seen before.

~Alexandra Kleeman

Topics: Another Avoid Becomes Before Car City Color Different Everywhere Glass Hall Mirrors Modern Never Out Own Plate Reflection Reflective Seek Seen Short Too Versions Walls Wide Windows You Your

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Sometimes you go for weeks without writing successfully, and you don't feel like a writer anymore. When friends ask me how my week was or how I'm doing, I think back on it, and I've just been by myself. Like, I'm just a sketch.

~Alexandra Kleeman

Topics: Anymore Ask Back Been Doing Feel Friends Go How Just Like Me Myself Sketch Sometimes Successfully Think Week Weeks Without Writer Writing You I Think

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We don't notice that our cells are turning over all the time. You get a completely new composition of cells every seven years, and on the surface, or subjectively, it looks as though you're the same for seven years. It's like a ground - it looks stable, but beneath it, everything is shifting all the time. It's exciting and dangerous.

~Alexandra Kleeman

Topics: Beneath Cells Composition Dangerous Every Everything Exciting Get Ground Like Looks New Notice Our Over Same Seven Shifting Stable Surface Though Time Turning Years You

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Makeup is something that a female has to reckon with every single day. Whether you wear it or don't, you're always making decisions about wearing it or not, or how you're wearing it, and what that means.

~Alexandra Kleeman

Topics: About Always Day Decisions Every Every Single Day Female How Makeup Making Making Decisions Means Reckon Single Single Day Something Wear Wearing Whether You

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Sometimes I want to withhold judgement on whether something is good or bad, but I do feel like identifying with TV characters - connecting to them emotionally more than you connect to literal, physical people in your life - causes problems. They just don't have the same existence or boundaries as you do. They resemble us, but they are not us.

~Alexandra Kleeman

Topics: Bad Boundaries Causes Characters Connect Connecting Emotionally Existence Feel Good Identifying Judgement Just Life Like Literal More People Physical Problems Resemble Same Something Sometimes Than Them Tv Us Want Whether Withhold You Your

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When I started binge-watching TV, when that became a thing due to Netflix a few years ago, the first thing I watched was 'Lost.' It was summer break from grad school, and I watched it all in a row, like as many hours a day as I could, as though I were clocking in at a job.

~Alexandra Kleeman

Topics: Became Break Could Day Due Few First First Thing Grad Grad School Hours Job Like Lost Many Netflix Row School Started Summer The First Thing Thing Though Tv Watched Were Years Years Ago

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I went into academia thinking that there'd be constant reciprocity between my scholarship and my creative work but found that doing one always turned my mind into the sort of tool that was badly suited to doing the other.

~Alexandra Kleeman

Topics: Academia Always Badly Between Constant Creative Creative Work Doing Found Mind Other Scholarship Sort Suited Thinking Tool Turned Work

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These days, there are times when my academic thinking intervenes in my writing, but it's usually while I'm developing a project and not while I'm writing it.

~Alexandra Kleeman

Topics: Academic Days Developing Project Thinking Times While Writing

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Both my parents are professors, and I never really saw people do any other jobs, so I didn't really know how to want a different kind of job.

~Alexandra Kleeman

Topics: Any Both Both My Parents Different Different Kind How Job Jobs Kind Know Never Other Parents People Professors Really Saw Want

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I feel like things are weirder in our food production chain than I can even make up. I wouldn't invent pink slime, but pink slime exists: It's a non-fictional entity. Like, that stuff grosses me out so much, I couldn't make it up.

~Alexandra Kleeman

Topics: Chain Entity Even Exists Feel Food Gross Invent Like Make Make Up Me Much Our Out Pink Production Slime Stuff Than Things Up Weirder I Feel I Can I Feel Like

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 26th, 1986

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