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Reality might be described as the eternal equipoise of positive and negative.

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Rachel Cusk
Age: 58
Born: 1967
Born: January 1
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As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.
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Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
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If love is what is held to make us immortal, hatred is the reverse.
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I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.
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