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“The problem wasn't thinking of myself as the protagonist of a narrative it was that I hadn't figured out the right narrative yet.”

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“Later I understood that his ugliness gave him power. Or anyway it made him mean, and if you're a white man, being mean, usually you get what you want.”

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“You, I said to my reflection in the mirror, are a real bitch.”

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“No one has a plan for you and your life doesn't have a soundtrack, it's just a series of . . . accidents and split-second decisions and coincidences and demographics, where you live and when you were born and who your parents were and how much money they had.”

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“Truth didn't help. Everything that had ever happened could never be integrated into something coherent. The trick was picking the right moments. The trick was knowing when to lie.”

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“But I had never had a self I was much interested in keeping . . .”

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“The writer who depicts an abhorrent male character still demands that the reader pay the abhorrent man his attention.”

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“Perhaps all this time I have been wrong about the story's protagonist, the man who runs out of road. Because he hasn't, not really. I mean, he can drive into the ocean. He can always decide to turn around.”

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“This was mostly true. I didn't intend to make my story all the way up, but I did want, for no important reason, for my story to be unverifiable.”

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