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“I do some messing around with things, not necessarily about me but about place and people and the things around.”

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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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