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Meg Wolitzer
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“Everybody has a theme. You talk to somebody awhile, and you realize they have one particular thing that rules them. The best you can do is a variation on the theme, but that's about it.”
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“Being an adult child was an awkward, inevitable position. You went about your business in the world: tooling around, giving orders, being taken seriously, but there were still these two people lurking somewhere who in a split second could reduce you to nothing. In their presence, you were a big-headed baby again, crawling instead of walking.”
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“... she felt that old generic guilt, the kind you feel even when you can't think of what in the world you are supposed to have done.”
Meg Wolitzer, U.S. writer
(1959)