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I'm SO trying to give up meat.
Curtis Sittenfeld
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Curtis Sittenfeld
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 23
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld
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I don't know what it is about human beings but most of us really like reading about or observing sexual tension and romance. It's just so much fun. I don't know if there is some Darwinian thing in us that really responds to that, but I think the most memorable scenes to me in books and movies are the ones where a couple is about to kiss.
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She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.
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I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.
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When you are a high school girl, there is nothing more miraculous than a high school boy.
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I had the fleeting thought then that we are each of us pathetic in one way or another, and the trick is to marry a person whose patheticness you can tolerate.
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I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.
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At that time in my life, no conclusion was a bad conclusion. Something ended, and you stopped wishing and worrying. You could consider your mistakes, and you might be embarrassed by them, but the box was sealed, the door was shut, you were no longer immersed in the confusing middle.
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I just write the books that I think I would want to read.
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I just like to inhabit a character really deeply.
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I think that there's some confusion in my own mind about what I believe.
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I gave people the benefit of the doubt, thinking, so many people that appear very calm and even boring must have all these wild emotions and crazy ideas.
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Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.
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We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life.
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If I'm at somebody's house and they have magazines on the table and people are chatting, I feel almost a physical urge to start reading the magazines instead of talking to people.
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Anyone who's really interested in anything spends time alone.
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I heard Gillian say, with a laugh, At this point, does anyone expect the liberals not to be total hypocrites? She was oblivious to the possibility that perhaps not everyone present shared her views, and I thought, You're sixteen. How can you already be a Republican?
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I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then?
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I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.
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I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.
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I feel like people who criticize authors for being self-promotional fail to recognize that a lot of times their ability to continue writing hinges on sales and recognition. Some of it is for fun, some of it is for ego, but a lot of it is just writers trying to ensure longevity to their career.
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