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Jenny Offill ist eine US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin.

✵ 1968
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“But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.”

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“If I had to sum up what he did to me, I’d say it was this: he made me sing along to all the bad songs on the radio. Both when he loved me and when he didn't.”

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“She thinks before she acts. Or more properly, she thinks instead of acts. A character flaw, not a virtue.”

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“Three things no one has ever said about me:

You make it look so easy.

You are very mysterious.

You need to take yourself more seriously.”

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“And that phrase - 'sleeping like a baby.' Some blonde said it blithely on the subway the other day. I wanted to lie down next to her and scream for five hours in her ear.”

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“A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.”

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“Also she signed away the right to self-destruct years ago. The fine print on the birth certificate, her friend calls it.”

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“Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.”

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“The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three.”

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“A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell my brain? But in the morning my daughter asks me what a cloud is and I cannot say.”

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“But my agent has a theory. She says every marriage is jerry-rigged. Even the ones that look reasonable from the outside are held together inside with chewing gum and wire and string.”

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“The only love that feels like love is the doomed kind. (Fun fact.)”

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“It has oblique leaves”

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