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Mary Gaitskill

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American writer (b. 1954)

Person · Open Library

Born
1954-11-11
Works
44

Top works

  • Secretary
  • Devil's Treasure
  • Veronica
  • Bad Behavior
  • ורוניקה

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
17
Total plays
556

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Quotes

  • She brightened. "Last week I ran a personal ad in the Guardian. I answered a few too. I'm not looking for sex; I feel too vulnerable for that. I just want somebody to hurt me and humiliate me."
  • My ambition was to live like music.
  • Of course there's something there; unfortunately, there's always something 'there.' Something you will one day be sorry you ever saw.
  • Everybody wanted to be depressed. But your depression was supposed to be funny, too, and that was what had proved too much for Dolores.
  • Dani said this woman, with whom she'd lived for two years, had never known her. "I feel like people accept the first thing I show them," she said, "and that's all I ever am to them."
  • Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood, don't write fiction.

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