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Book: Shopgirl
Quotes of Book: Shopgirl

Steve Martin _ Shopgirl
Mirabelle is not affected by a man's failure to approach her, as her own self-deprecating attitude never allows the idea that he would in the first place.
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Steve Martin _ Shopgirl
If there were a silent observer, Mirabelle would be seen as a carefree, happy girl who is preparing for a night on the town. But in reality, these activities are the physical manifestations of her stillness.
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Steve Martin _ Shopgirl
She has simply never quite learned to walk or hold herself comfortably, which makes her come off as an attractive wallflower.
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Steve Martin _ Shopgirl
When you work in the glove department at Neiman's, you are selling things that nobody buys anymore.
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Steve Martin _ Shopgirl
What would any man do with a soggy girl who can't assert herself, who has a weak voice, and whose main personality component is helplessness?
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Steve Martin _ Shopgirl
These experiences have caused him to think very hard about what he is doing and where he is going. And the result of all this thinking is that he now understands that he doesn't know what he is doing or where he is going.
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Steve Martin _ Shopgirl
Mirabelle's ambition is about one-tenth of 1 percent of what would be called normal. ... She is not aware that some people fight like alley cats for desirable situations. She presents a résumé, fills out an application, waits, and finally makes a call to see if she got the job. Usually, a confused secretary will answer and say that the position had been filled weeks ago. This aimlessness in presenting herself contributes to her feeling of being adrift.
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Steve Martin _ Shopgirl
All this in no way discounts her attractiveness. Mirabelle is attractive; it's just that she is never the first or second girl chosen.
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Steve Martin _ Shopgirl
There is nothing too mysterious about Ray Porter, at least not in the usual sense of the word. He is single, he is kind, he tries to do the right thing, and he does not understand himself, or women, or his relationships with women.
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Steve Martin _ Shopgirl
She appears sunny, a quality that Mirabelle can call upon only for special occasions.
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Steve Martin _ Shopgirl
Mirabelle knows, and she lets this be unspoken, that all free things require conversation. Sitting in a darkened movie theatre requires absolutely no conversation at all, whereas a free date, like a walk down Hollywood Boulevard in the busy evening, requires comments, chatter, observations, and with luck, wit. She worries that since they have only exchanged perhaps two dozen words between them, these free dates will be horrible.
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Steve Martin _ Shopgirl
Mirabelle, who never takes credit for her attractiveness, believes it is not she he is responding to, but rather something independent of her.
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