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An erratum is a correction inserted into a book after publication. It's a nice thing to collect because you can't go after them, you just come upon them. In 25 years I've only found about 12.

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Miranda July
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: February 15
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Miranda J. Grossinger
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He seemed to be waiting for me to move forward. Weren't we all.
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My ideal life is just lounging around the house and every once in a while I'll kind of write something, and then I'll leave and eat something and masturbate or whatever - just this very fluid life of comforting myself.
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Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.
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I had a joint once and I didn't feel right for a whole year
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He was worried she would not let him love her with the stain. He had already decided long ago, twenty or thirty minutes ago, that the stain was fine. He had only seen it for a moment, but he was already used to it. It was good. It somehow allowed them to have more.
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There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.
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The life you live in front of an audience is like an altered state - it's not totally real. I'm always, even in the course of one day, trying to find ways to balance both sides.
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The job of the artist is to point at things.
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It occurred to me that everyone’s story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk.
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Don't wait to be sure. Move, move, move.
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What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.
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For a split second I felt as though she was nobody special in the larger scheme of my life. She was just some girl who had tied me to her leg to help her sink when she jumped off the bridge. Then I blinked and was in love with her again.
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I steeled myself against laughter I would rather die than laugh. I didn’t laugh, I did not laugh. But I died, I did die.
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I went to the bedroom and lay on the floor, so as not to mess up the covers.
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We don't really believe in mowing the lawn we do it only to avoid unnecessary engagement with the neighbors.
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… it wasn’t pretend, I wasn’t in a fairytale or a fable. I shut my eyes and absorbed the silent whoomp that always accompanies this revelation. It’s the sound of the real world, gigantic and impossible, replacing the smaller version of reality that I wear like a bonnet, clutched tightly under my chin.
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Since I started making art, I've always had some kind of project that was really about and for other people, because I think I just need that balance to feel sane myself — you know?
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We humans are here because nothing can be perfect. There always have to be some living things that are unsatisfied, itchy, trying too hard. If it was all just animals and rocks and lettuce, the gods wouldn't feel like they had enough to do.
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Thus far, everything I've made has come out of my really feeling it, out of the fire of my life.
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Would she understand that time had stopped while she was gone.
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