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As soon as a regular guy like Bill Clinton becomes the president, he wears a mantle of greatness. He's the president.

~Lydia Millet

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I like to amuse myself.

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Everyone desires to laugh sometimes, and I want to make that available.

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There has to be space for play in literature. We all need some breathing room.

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It's a friendly act to write a lighthearted book.

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Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.

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I wanted to write about this tropical honeymoon in part because I had the most drastically terrible honeymoon.

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There is a lot of contradictions of mermaids as a symbol. I'm always interested in contradictions.

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The Free Body Culture gave me a gift I might never have received had I refused to play along. It left me with an acute sense of the absurd - one I still cherish - to be there among my fellow apes, awkward and less than half-willing, aiming and missing, leaping, landing and wincing.

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When I was 16, I went to Berlin - West Berlin, since at that time a wall still divided the city - to live for three months with a family on an exchange program.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: December 5th, 1968

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