Mary Gaitskill quotes

Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood, don't write fiction. (Mary Gaitskill)

My ambition was to live like music.

Mary Gaitskill

Of course there's something there; unfortunately, there's always something 'there.' Something you will one day be sorry you ever saw.

Mary Gaitskill

She brightened. "Last week I ran a personal ad in the Guardian. I answered a few too. I'm not looking for sex; I feel too vulnerable for that. I just want somebody to hurt me and humiliate me."

Mary Gaitskill

Dani said this woman, with whom she'd lived for two years, had never known her. "I feel like people accept the first thing I show them,” she said, "and that's all I ever am to them.

Mary Gaitskill

Everybody wanted to be depressed. But your depression was supposed to be funny, too, and that was what had proved too much for Dolores.

Mary Gaitskill

Mary Gaitskill

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Occupation: American Novelist
Born: November 11, 1954
Quotes count: 6
Wikipedia: Mary Gaitskill

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