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Checkout quotes by Sheila Heti on People

• ‟ Renown is something people have always wanted, but maybe what's modern is that it's considered a virtue, this desire, rather than a vice. I might be wrong about this.

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• ‟ There is a kind of sadness in not wanting the things that give so many other people their life's meaning. There can be sadness at not living out a more universal story - the supposed life cycle.

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• ‟ I don't know what that line is between fiction and non-fiction that other people have in their minds, but to me, when I'm writing, it's just like whatever the next sentence should be is the next sentence. It's not this artificial division.

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• ‟ I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my mid-twenties.

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• ‟ I'd rather that people could be both entertained and given rest while reading my book than for someone to have to put the book down to take a rest. You can't just be lighting firecrackers all the time.

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• ‟ I think that so many people who have children seem to want other people to have children in order to make their choice feel more essential, more inevitable, and just more right.

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• ‟ The reason I write is because I have questions. What I don't want is for people to forget that I'm a novelist and think I'm a sociologist or something. I don't want to feel trapped into a corner where I don't belong.

  - Sheila Heti