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• ‟ Where I grew up, in the Detroit area, there was a really good station. Sometimes you would hear songs for the first time on the radio, and if a really special song came on, somebody would turn it up, and everybody would just stop talking.

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• ‟ I had really wanted adventure. At the time that I ran away, lots of kids ran away from home. It was something of a social phenomenon.

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• ‟ I think people try to make the most of their time on Earth and also to 'fix' their time on Earth.

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• ‟ A sad person who is so involved with his sadness that he mistakes it for reality will have a hard time seeing himself as anything but sad. For him, the sadness is not a feeling that he experiences - it is him.

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• ‟ One hot summer night in San Francisco, roughly 10 years ago, I was sitting in a crowded Pacific Heights restaurant when Alice Adams walked in with a man. She was about 60 at the time, and she was wearing a skirt that fell an inch or so above her knees and flat heels without stockings.

  - Mary Gaitskill