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What is faithfulness, anyway? Can you be unfaithful to your own feelings and faithful to someone else? Is it faithful to lie in bed night after night with someone you love but no longer desire while ardently dreaming of someone else?

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Stories mimic life like certain insects mimic leaves and twigs.

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The appeal of perfume is that it is at once ephemeral and empowering. It creates a shimmering invisible armor that lingers in a room long after its wearer has gone and infuses our imagination with a subtle power, hinting at a hidden identity.

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My first and strongest memories about perfume come from childhood, from my mother, and they are a complex blend of her private and public selves.

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Perhaps it should be obvious: Adultery is a social threat that arouses raw anger and fear, which the bellicose then need to discharge rather than merely feel, traditionally on the philandering wife or the female home-wrecker.

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I used to start at about 10 at night and work until early morning. My preferred way to work is to start in the early afternoon and work until about 3, go do errands, have dinner, and then write for a few more hours in the evening.

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Stories are the rich, unseen underlayer of the most ordinary moments.

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One hot summer night in San Francisco, roughly 10 years ago, I was sitting in a crowded Pacific Heights restaurant when Alice Adams walked in with a man. She was about 60 at the time, and she was wearing a skirt that fell an inch or so above her knees and flat heels without stockings.

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I didn't start thinking about what I wanted to do professionally until I was 17. I was a hippie, but I did write.

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I think that with the proliferation of writing programs, people tend to forget that you also have to get used to working alone, and you have to be your own support.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: November 11th, 1954

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