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When you move around a lot, there are little bits of you from everywhere. I mean, my father's French, and I speak French, and there's a kind of struggle in me that says, 'I'd like to be French.' But I've never been fully part of that culture, that role.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Around Been Bits Culture Everywhere Father French Fully Kind Like Little Lot Me Mean Move Never Part Role Says Speak Struggle You

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In midlife, I feel that my tendency to acquire books is rather like someone smoking two packs a day: it's a terrible vice that I wish I could shuck.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Acquire Books Could Day Feel Like Packs Rather Smoking Someone Tendency Terrible Two Vice Wish I Wish I Feel

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I love my books, and with all their dog-ears and under-linings they are irreplaceable, but I sometimes wish they'd just vanish.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Books Irreplaceable Just Love Sometimes Vanish Wish I Love

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To be weighed down by things - books, furniture - seems somehow terrible to me.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Books Down Furniture Me Seems Somehow Terrible Things Weighed

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If I hear a story or a fact about somebody I don't know and have never met, it's like getting a hollow vessel that you can fill up with whatever you want. That's more tempting to me than to try to replicate what I actually know.

~Claire Messud

Topics: About Actually Fact Fill Getting Hear Hollow Know Like Me Met More Never Replicate Somebody Story Tempting Than Try Up Vessel Want Whatever You

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I went around in my teens and early 20s thinking that life was a con trick. I had managed to grow up believing in all sorts of romantic ideas about hard work and justice and truth, and it seemed the real world was much more complicated and shaded than I wanted to believe.

~Claire Messud

Topics: About Around Believe Believing Complicated Con Early Early 20S Grow Grow Up Had Hard Hard Work Ideas Justice Life More Much Real Real World Romantic Seemed Sort Teens Than The Real World Thinking Trick Truth Up Wanted Work World

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I don't trust people who are likable.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Likable People Trust Who

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We are all unappealing. It is just a matter of how much we let people see it.

~Claire Messud

Topics: How How Much Just Matter Much People See

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Especially since having children, a lot of the time if you ask me, 'Have you read that book?' the answer would be 'not personally.'

~Claire Messud

Topics: Answer Ask Book Children Having Having Children Lot Me Personally Read Since Time Would You

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Obama was the first president whose biography makes sense to me. He can walk into a room anywhere and find common ground with any person.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Any Anywhere Biography Common Common Ground Find First Ground He Makes Me Obama Person President Room Sense Walk Whose

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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