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Armies of the Night
“Anyway, I really liked Armies of the Night, and it’s a horrible book in some ways.”
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Mary Gaitskill
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No. I think that even Victorian novels — it’s there. The first thing that pops into mind is Bleak House.
“No. I think that even Victorian novels — it’s there. The first thing that pops into mind is Bleak House.”
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I thought maybe it’s just because I was old and not used to it, but when I published that — I needed to stop because I’m getting overstimulated — a lot of younger people, like former students, emailed me and said, “Yes, that’s how I feel.
“I thought maybe it’s just because I was old and not used to it, but when I published that — I needed to stop because I’m getting overstimulated — a lot of younger people, like former students, emailed me and said, “Yes, that’s how I feel.”
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03 / evaluation
That is a very strange mentality to me. Also, she could have emailed me and said, “I prefer to be called they/their.
“That is a very strange mentality to me. Also, she could have emailed me and said, “I prefer to be called they/their.”
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04 / evaluation
Even the strongest of us is going to either die violently or age and get sick and come face to face with our weakness and the fact that we have no idea who we are or what we’re doing here. And we’re not aware of that most of the time because we’re just moving around in the world, but on the deathbed, the things we think were really important may not matter very much.
“Even the strongest of us is going to either die violently or age and get sick and come face to face with our weakness and the fact that we have no idea who we are or what we’re doing here. And we’re not aware of that most of the time because we’re just moving around in the world, but on the deathbed, the things we think were really important may not matter very much.”
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05 / evaluation
The thing about social media that everybody knows is, it allows people to be really awful in a way they wouldn’t in person because it’s easy to be really insulting and gross if you don’t even have to look at the person’s reaction or deal with the fact they may want to punch you in the face.
“The thing about social media that everybody knows is, it allows people to be really awful in a way they wouldn’t in person because it’s easy to be really insulting and gross if you don’t even have to look at the person’s reaction or deal with the fact they may want to punch you in the face.”
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Even some editors, I think, expect that people have gone through this program. That, I think, is quite destructive because of the reason I just said.
“Even some editors, I think, expect that people have gone through this program. That, I think, is quite destructive because of the reason I just said.”
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