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It might pay to be resilient, if this was all being vulnerable and skinless got you. People didn't stop and cluck over damage done unless you made it worth their while. Indeed, maybe it was time to rethink this whole salvation business. Or maybe I was less desperate, less teetering on the edge than I cared to admit. Now, that was a refreshing possibility.

Daphne Merkin

Naturally, our own irrational demands strike us as having the force of needs, while other people's needs strike us as capricious indulgences.

Daphne Merkin

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.

Daphne Merkin

Daphne Merkin

Daphne Merkin

Born: May 30, 1954 (age 71)

Bio: Daphne Miriam Merkin is an American literary critic, essayist and novelist. Merkin is a graduate of Barnard College. She also attended Columbia University's graduate program in English literature.

Known for:

Dreaming of Hitler (1997)
Enchantment (1986)

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