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A neighbor is something that belongs to the stable world of home life, the thing that lives next door to you.

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Rachel Cusk
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: January 1
Novelist
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The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone its meaning is far from stable. What it says - 'Notice me, feed me, mother me' - is not what it means, for such attentions constitute an agonising test of that will, and also threaten to return the body to the dreaded 'normality' it has been such ecstasy to escape.
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Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
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Modern morality is all about perception.
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Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.
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A sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is a question of the subtlest possible adjustments, a process of intuition to which exaggeration and force are fatal.
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Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.
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An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.
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You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.
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Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
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Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
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A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.
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Divorce also entails the beginning of a supposition that that familial reality might have obstructed one's ability to perceive others.
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If love is what is held to make us immortal, hatred is the reverse.
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It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.
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