"Or so we don't think about how we're just vulnerable specks trying to survive on a violent, tumultuous planet, at the mercy of hurricanes and volcanoes and asteroids and terrorists and disease and a million other things. We concentrate on having little thoughts so we don't have BIG THOUGHTS. . . . You've got to ignore the one big truth - life is fatal."

-- Deb Caletti

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“Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.”
“It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.”
“I'm not very disciplined. I tend to write late at night because I get distracted during the day.”

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“We go on dates thinking that person is our future husband or wife, without getting to know them, as we live in a fantasy and an illusion of romance.”
“One of the things that was really influential early on was Ezra Pound's Cantos, one poem he worked on for 50 years. It's epic. I had a great deal of difficulty understanding it. One of the problems was you'd be reading along in English and he would move to a Chinese ideogram or French-he actually used seven different languages in a given poem. And for somebody who's not fluent in different languages it has the impact of rupturing your way of understanding something.”
“I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.”
“Rather than look at a marriage as two people morphing into one thing, you could see two individuals who are choosing to form a partnership.”
“I have found that if you invest in the lives of people, well-feed sheep will reproduce themselves.”

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