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I didn’t choose anonymity.Instead, I chose absence.
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We lie in order to tolerate our existence and, most of all, we lie to ourselves.
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It’s the people who love us or hate us – or both – who hold together the thousands of fragments we are made of.
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I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle.
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Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In short, the lives of others.
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At most, I may write when I am disturbed by something. I have recently discovered the pleasure of finding written answers to written questions.
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I have always paid careful attention to social and economic conflicts, to the dialectic – if we can call it that – between high and low. Maybe it’s because I was not born or brought up in affluence.
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