"The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature.""

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Kate Zambreno

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“You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.”
“Any good movie is filled with secrets. If a director doesn't leave anything unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture's unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture is good, it's mysterious, with things unsaid.”
“I can conceive few human states more enviable than that of the man to whom, panting in the foul laboratory, or watching for his life under the tropic forest, Isis shall for a moment lift her sacred veil, and show him, once and for ever, the thing he dreamed not of; some law, or even mere hint of a law, explaining one fact; but explaining with it a thousand more, connecting them all with each other and with the mighty whole, till order and meaning shoots through some old Chaos of scattered observations.”
“There are so many tough opponents out there and tough competitors so I've never liked to look ahead.”

Source : "The Busted Racquet Interview: Caroline Wozniacki". Interview with Chris Chase, sports.yahoo.com. March 8, 2011.
“As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.”
“Both teams are making mistakes. Florida's making these itsy-bitsy little ones, and Tennessee is making huge, gigantic mistakes.”
“The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.”
“Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.”

Source : Ann Aguirre (2008). “Grimspace”, p.344, Penguin

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