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I hadn’t expected the Transatlantic Review to come out so quickly. My stories have been coming out one after another with a reality that stuns me; I never quite prepared myself for seeing all these stories in print.

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Thank goodness every autumn brings a Truffaut film. His latest, Small Change, is about children and their wonder, and of course it was very good. I wish I could live between the frames of a Truffaut film.

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I was crying at a red light and then I stopped and thought that the people in the car next to me must be staring, so I turned my head and looked – and there in the next car was a woman, and she was crying, too.

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I don’t know if I’m going to like this job, but it shouldn’t be too bad; and when it is, I’ll just have to remember how much worse it is not to be working at all.

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If someone had told me seven, five – even two years ago – that life could be this good, I wouldn’t have believed them.

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Teresa said her sex life in California was practically nonexistent – although she remedied that with Carolyn’s scholarly next-door neighbor, who brought her to orgasm eight times in one night.

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There is nothing new under the sun.