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Lauren Beukes - The Shining Girls (2013)

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Memory is curated. All this paraphernalia you collect to ward off forgetting

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The problem with snapshots is that they replace actual memories. You lock down the moment and it becomes all there is of it.

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There are patterns because we try to find them. A desperate attempt at order because we can't face the terror that it might all be random.

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Lauren Beukes

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Born: June 5, 1976 (age 49)
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