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“In order to have a real life of any romance, there has to be a level of fantasy.”

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Jane Alison, born in 1961, is a person of mysterious occupation. Her life experience and achievements are limited by available information, and further details are awaited. more

“There's a quote that I learned in college a million years ago. "Happy, thought I, is the man who can, in one and the same embrace, hold both his love and the object of his love." Holding the feeling that you have and all the images that you've got and all the fantasies and romantic associations while also holding the actual core person that's been saddled with all of this.”

Men Years Persons Feelings Millions Fantasy Objects College He Man Years Ago Embrace Core Association His Love Happy Thoughts

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“That was one of the problems with the Narcissus figure. Here is a face looking at a face, and the problem is the image of the thing is never actually the thing. You try and grab it and it's not there. It's water. It disappears.”

Trying Problem Faces Water Figures Disappear Narcissus

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“Teaching writing puts you on the point of a pin in terms of what you want your own writing to be.”

Want Writing Term Teaching What You Want Pins Teaching Writing

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“Like a lot of writers, I just got sick to death of conventional fiction. I absolutely couldn't stand the illusion of reality and plot. I just couldn't stomach it.”

Reality Fiction Illusion Sick Plot Stomach Conventional

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“Early in the phase of being in a female body, there's all this desire that comes at you, a lot of it hostile, a lot of it dangerous, a lot of it ruinous.”

Body Desire Dangerous Female Phases Hostile Female Body

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“When you get immersed in whatever you're writing, the world does suddenly get so filtered through what you're writing. And then of course what you're writing then filters the world right back.”

World Writing Doe Courses Filters

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“There's a lot of water in everything I've ever written. There's always oceans and pools.”

Water Written Ocean Pool

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“I was born in Australia and grew up in the foreign services. I had this kind of trans-Pacific life. I think I was always sort of oriented towards here's Australia and here's America and here's the Pacific.”

Thinking Kind America Born Grew Grew Up Australia Trans Pacific Foreign Service

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“I grew up flying over oceans and moving and sailing.”

Moving Grew Ocean Grew Up Flying Sailing

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“My first memory is on a ship from California back to Sydney. Water is just a natural place of home and not home.”

Firsts Home Water Natural Memories Ships California Sydney

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