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Obviously the bar is much higher now for a behavior to be scandalous. Social media has really changed the way people live. It's not a new impulse it's just being enacted in a new way.
Curtis Sittenfeld
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Curtis Sittenfeld
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 23
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Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld
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I feel like as I've gotten older I've unfortunately come to the decision that a lot of people who seem normal and boring maybe are normal and boring.
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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've had people say very dismissive things about my books, but I also feel like I probably have more readers because I'm a woman. I mean, more readers are women and more people who buy books are women, so I don't feel like it's a total disadvantage to be a female writer.
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I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors
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Perhaps this is how you know you're doing the thing you're intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel that it's a waste of time.
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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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I just like to inhabit a character really deeply.
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There are people we treat wrong and later, we're prepared to treat other people right.
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I'm SO trying to give up meat.
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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 always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.
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We have to make mistakes, its how we learn compassion for others
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I think that there's some confusion in my own mind about what I believe.
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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 do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.
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The better you learn to take care of yourself, the less you settle for being around people who can't or won't treat you as well as you're accustomed.
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To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person.
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I guess because twins have this mystique, and triplets - I think the normal sibling connection potentially can be very powerful, and there's this idea that it's even more powerful. It really is, not just someone like me, but another version of me.
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In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book.
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