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I feel I'm often misunderstood by critics. People project a lot or exaggerate the subjective fragility simply because it's frightening to them.

~Mary Gaitskill

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You can't tell an 18-year-old to keep it down and turn off Britney Spears or whatever it is that they listen to.

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I had a strong conviction that there was something out there in the world that was wonderful.

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I had really wanted adventure. At the time that I ran away, lots of kids ran away from home. It was something of a social phenomenon.

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It's true that your environment influences how you write.

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I didn't like horses when I was a kid.

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I think people try to make the most of their time on Earth and also to 'fix' their time on Earth.

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The first person to blow up my fashion consciousness was a 14-year-old girl named Sandrine. She was the most beautiful human I had ever seen.

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Between my hatred of mall shopping and my mother's firm ideas about how a girl should dress, my style choices were pretty unenthusiastic: plaid skirts or whatever empire-waisted thingamabob was on sale at Sears.

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The two basic social identities were Normal and Greaser; although a few sophisticated girls wore peace signs, hippies didn't exist, and while a seminal punk band, Iggy and the Stooges, was playing in nearby Ann Arbor, punk didn't exist yet, either.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: November 11th, 1954

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