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Ottessa Moshfegh

"I don't remember reading much at all during the writing of Eileen. I go through several years-long dry spells and I don't feel like reading at all. I was working part-time for a guy in Venice, California while I drafted Eileen. He wanted help in writing his memoir. The research had a lot to do with the 60s, so that must have informed my sense of the place and time in my novel, and perhaps even the memoir point-of-view. He was also from New England. It was a fun job. I learned a lot about motorcycle clubs, Charles Manson, hopping freight trains."

-- Ottessa Moshfegh

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“I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.”
“When what's left of you gets around to what's left to be gotten, what's left to be gotten won't be worth getting whatever it is you've got left.”

Source : "Fictional character: Phil Davis". "White Christmas", www.imdb.com. 1954.
“I think the problems of the world aren't caused by people coming together and saying Â«let's make problemsÂ». They're caused by people coming together and saying Â«let's make solutionsÂ» without having solved the problem of their own suffering.”
“In one sense, no act of reparation will be satisfactory for those whose lives were so under-valued both as human beings held in slavery and then as human chattel to satisfy the financial indebtedness of a Catholic institution. Nonetheless, the university must also put into place - as it is attempting to do - a program that both admits the horror and error of its past actions and directs its students, faculty, and administrations to an awareness of the dignity of all people, especially those who even today are often considered less than worthy of respect and dignity.”
“You don't gamble to win. You gamble so you can gamble the next day.”
“Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.”
“Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.”
“I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in Heaven; Yet certain am I of the spot, As if a chart were given.”

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