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  1. Curtis Sittenfeld _ American Wife

    reason to do anything other than bypass and ignore. And
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  2. Curtis Sittenfeld _ American Wife

    People to whom a terrible thing has never happened trust fate, the notion that what's meant to be, will be. The rest of us know better.
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  3. Curtis Sittenfeld _ American Wife

    I've never tried to assert my views unless they are self-evident, not reliant on an argument from me to prove or disprove them: Breast-cancer awareness and AIDS prevention are good. Illiteracy is bad. Historic preservation will allow future generations to understand what life used to be like and in so doing will help Americans chart a path forward. The issues and decisions that are more complex I have left to others, to those confident of their own rightness.
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  4. Curtis Sittenfeld _ American Wife

    Dispatches and warnings from this side of the fame fence tend to go ignored, dismissed as either whining or false modesty; if they weren't ignored, if people listened, no one would ever again seek attention. But they always do, they strive and strive, hoping one day they, too, will have the luxury of lamenting their high profile.
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  5. Curtis Sittenfeld _ American Wife

    She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given me the gifts of curiosity and sympathy, an awareness of the world as an odd and vibrant and contradictory place, and it had made me unafraid of its oddness and vibrancy and contradictions.
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  6. Curtis Sittenfeld _ American Wife

    {as a single woman in my early thirties, I was careful not to coo excessively over other people's infants, lest it seem like I was telegraphing my desperation; the necessity of this precaution annoyed me, making me want to defiantly announce that I'd always liked babies,
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  7. Curtis Sittenfeld _ American Wife

    Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose-what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?-and perhaps it is my avid reading that has been my faith all along.
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  8. Curtis Sittenfeld _ American Wife

    The Wisconsin land, scraped and rearranged by glaciers, accosted by tornadoes, drenched and dried out and drenched again-it didn't care what I had done.
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  9. Curtis Sittenfeld _ American Wife

    Oh, how different my life would have been had I not grown up in the same house with my grandmother, how much narrower and blander!
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  10. Curtis Sittenfeld _ American Wife

    get more stupider.
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  11. Curtis Sittenfeld _ American Wife

    It's good on the other side, but it's good on your side too. Enjoy it there. The loneliness is harder, and the loneliness is the biggest part, but some things are easier.
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  12. Curtis Sittenfeld _ American Wife

    Approaching each other, him from the gym, me from the library- this was when I walked down the aisle and he was waiting, this was when we made love, it was every anniversary, every reunion in an airport or train station, every reconciliation after a quarrel. This was the whole of our lives together.
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