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“I was finding it difficult to speak with any vivacity, any pleasure. I wanted to get off the phone. I wanted him to feel bad, too.”

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Susanna Moore is an American author born on December 9, 1945. Her works are known for their unique narrative style and profound portrayal of female characters. more

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“I do not remember too much now. Certain things. Certain images. All sorts of irrational, irrational because nonsensically inappropriate, pieces of information stream through my head, as if my unconscious were bombarding me with words and phrases, an enemy agent subverting a radio broadcast.”

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“Sometimes when I am not expecting it, when I let down my guard for a moment, allowing the thousands, the millions of little synapses in my head to work their will, conveying to me just what it is that I cannot bear to know, cannot bear to be known, I do remember.”

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“As always, I was pulled in by the small gesture. It was all that I knew about him, and it was perilous to me.”

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“Will you tell me?" I asked. "Tell you what?" He spoke flatly, as if he dreaded my question and already knew that he would answer it. "What you did." "Why do you think that knowing makes a difference?" "I've thought that all my life." "Well, you're wrong. Knowing don't mean shit.”

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“I am so ashamed by the things that used to make me unhappy.”

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“There's something I know but I don't know it yet. It's driving me nuts.”

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“It began to rain in that rushed and urgent way that it rains in New York.”

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“I wanted to talk to him. To hear his dangerous voice, the voice that he used with women ('Hi, baby, how you doin'? Sittin' on the phone?' The 'hi' drawn out in a low, implicating whisper.) I wanted to hear the coldness that was so deep . . . That coldness of spirit that had made it so thrilling to get his attention.”

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“I was thinking that everything had changed in an instant, changed in a way that neither he nor I might mind.”

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“I hereby grant you permission to write crap. The more the better. Remember, crap makes the best fertilizer.”

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