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Daphne Merkin
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“My mother is the source of my unease in the world and thus the only person who can make me feel at home in the world.”
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“I know her face by heart. Sometimes I think nothing will break her spell.”
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“There's something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on.”
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“Everyone lies about sex, more or less, to themselves if not to others, to others if not to themselves, exaggerating its importance or minimizing its pull.”
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“No bill of sexual rights can hold its own against the lawless, untamable landscape of the erotic imagination.”
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“It was through reading that I discovered the crucial, even sacrosanct place the rituals of drinking held in the American imagination — the ingenious way alcohol seemed to lubricate everything from onerous chitchat to self-conscious sexual advances.”
Daphne Merkin, U.S. writer, literary critic
(1954)
Full name: Daphne Miriam Merkin.