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A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.
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It’s not you. It’s anyone. Sometimes I don’t want anyone around. Some afternoons I lie on my bed and the light comes through the shutters on the floor and I think I never want to leave my own room.
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Privilege" is something else."Privilege" is a judgment."Privilege" is an opinion."Privilege" is an accusation.
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I am an anthropologist who lost faith in her own method, who stopped believing that observable activity defined anthropos.
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The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.
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Happiness is,' after all, a consumption ethic.
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Everything's going along as usual and then all shit breaks loose.
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... and the warm air smelled of mildew and some instinct, programmed by all the movies I had ever seen and all the songs I had ever heard sung and all the stories I had ever read about New York, informed me that it would never be quite the same again. In fact it never was.
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I would stay in New York, I told him, just six months, and I could see the Brooklyn Bridge from my window. As it turned out the bridge was the Triborough, and I stayed eight years.
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