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Mary Gaitskill on Subjects That Are Vexing Everybody

2 Nov 2022 17 published claims 2 attributable people
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Mary GaitskillTyler Cowen

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evaluation 7belief 6preference 3recommendation 1

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17 published records

01 / belief

Not entirely — I understand them by their words and actions as well, but I think people tell the truth with their face much more than they do with their words — and their tone of voice, and the way they move their body.

“Not entirely — I understand them by their words and actions as well, but I think people tell the truth with their face much more than they do with their words — and their tone of voice, and the way they move their body.”
Speaker
Mary Gaitskill
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Conversations with Tyler

02 / belief

I want the reader to feel them, and that’s something that’s more unconscious almost. But I think that I want to create almost a feeling that you’re in the room with that person, and instead of dismissing them quickly, you open your psyche and just feel them.

“I want the reader to feel them, and that’s something that’s more unconscious almost. But I think that I want to create almost a feeling that you’re in the room with that person, and instead of dismissing them quickly, you open your psyche and just feel them.”
Speaker
Mary Gaitskill
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

03 / belief

I think, if I could come up with a general reason — not talking about my characters right now, but talking about people — I think people who seem like they just want to be unhappy or are incurably unhappy — it doesn’t have to do with what they want.

“I think, if I could come up with a general reason — not talking about my characters right now, but talking about people — I think people who seem like they just want to be unhappy or are incurably unhappy — it doesn’t have to do with what they want.”
Speaker
Mary Gaitskill
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

10 / evaluation

Sometimes in your self-accounts, you claim to be confused by social situations, yet in your novels, I would say your remarks are extremely insightful into character and into the human condition.

“Sometimes in your self-accounts, you claim to be confused by social situations, yet in your novels, I would say your remarks are extremely insightful into character and into the human condition.”
Speaker
Tyler Cowen
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

11 / evaluation

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.”
Speaker
Mary Gaitskill
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

12 / preference

I know I don’t have to, but if somebody says anything at all interesting, I want to respond. It’s very difficult for me not to respond because I’m curious, especially if it’s somebody who’s saying something that is very different from people I know in life.

“I know I don’t have to, but if somebody says anything at all interesting, I want to respond. It’s very difficult for me not to respond because I’m curious, especially if it’s somebody who’s saying something that is very different from people I know in life.”
Speaker
Mary Gaitskill
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

15 / 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.”
Speaker
Mary Gaitskill
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

16 / 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.”
Speaker
Mary Gaitskill
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler
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