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“As for myself, I used to think it didn't put her in the best of lights for her to be going around being heard looking like somebody saying things like that.”
― Gordon Lish, Collected Fictions

“The day in April when Dr McKnight came to me to bid me goodbye, he made me promise to say a true thing to take a certain prominence among the lies by which my being among others made my being among them manageable for me.”
― Gordon Lish, White Plains: Pieces & Witherlings

“And for the rest of her life, the girl, the woman, she never made a mark on anyone either that proved anything absolutely for certain, that she could ever see, about what she had done at any time, and this does not break her heart.

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― Diane Williams

“We had the same oily skin, dripping and dark. We were warned never to let our hands land on our cheeks or our foreheads, told that our blotting fingerpads would make things only worse. By the end of the day, our faces would appear to be entirely behind water. It was just the rain combing back out of us, we were told. By morning, the pillowcases would be moist with our heatdrops.”
― Garielle Lutz, Stories in the Worst Way