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  1. Mary Gaitskill _ Veronica

    I left the sadomasochist dump with a girl from the south of France named Simone. She was wearing a tight blue dress with red wine spilled down the front of it. She was so drunk, she didn't care. "Fuck it," she kept saying in English, "you know?" The tattooed doorman called out an endearment to us as we emerged for his cave... We linked arms and walked. Simone was talking about her new boyfriend, but I didn't listen. I was thinking about Lisa's shame at Naxos, trying to gloat. But Alex was right- even a young girls shame could be beautiful.
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  2. Mary Gaitskill _ Bad Behavior: Stories

    Maybe it would be better to hold her winglike shadow safe in the lock of his memory than to touch the breathing girl and lose her.
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  3. Mary Gaitskill _ Veronica

    He looks like somebody wandering in a dark maze, clutching his little bit of goodness, knowing it's all he's got but not remembering what it is or how to use it.
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  4. Mary Gaitskill _ Veronica

    Ho fatto cose che sembrano autodistruttive tutta la vita. Ma in realtà non avevo nessuna intenzione di distruggermi. Ho sempre saputo dov'era il limite. Fino ad ora.
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  5. Mary Gaitskill _ Two Girls, Fat and Thin

    I watched voyeuristically, knowing I was peeping at people in the middle of a collective dream. I imagined myself among them, part of the regimental dance, the teacher's rosy heat, the huge mobile hope of happiness and vitality. And as I watched, it suddenly occurred to me I had been merely watching the world all my life.
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  6. Mary Gaitskill _ The Devil's Treasure

    Valiantly, he tried to bring his soul to life in the small thing through which it had to live, and it was crushed, again and again.
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  7. Mary Gaitskill _ Veronica

    But prettiness is always about pleasing people. When you stop being pretty, you don't have to do that anymore. I don't have to do that anymore. It's my show now.
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  8. Mary Gaitskill _ The Devil's Treasure

    She was starved hurting limbs.
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  9. Mary Gaitskill _ Today I'm Yours

    Today I'm Yours." It was a crude and romantic song. But human feeling is crude and romantic.
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  10. Mary Gaitskill _ The Mare

    They say dogs are man's best friend," he said. "But horses are man's best slave.
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  11. Mary Gaitskill _ Veronica

    I loved them like you love your hand or your liver, without thinking about it or even being able to see it. But my music made that fleshly love feel dull and dumb, deep, slow, and heavy as stone. Come, said the music, to joy and speed and secret endlessness, where everything tumbles together and attachments are not made of sad flesh.
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  12. Mary Gaitskill _ Veronica

    feel like the bright past is coming through the gray present and I want to look at it one more time.
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