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I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of bed.

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She belonged to a generation of women who had been well fed on meat and potatoes and some of their bodies could not forget this.

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Happiness is a fragile thing, and alcohol, as I know from the house I grew up in, is dangerous to it.

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There's a kind of virgin one only becomes with difficulty.

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Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a predator's eyes. Most predators have eyes set right on the front of their heads, so they can use binocular vision to sight and track their prey.
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Marian Engel

Marian Engel

Born: May 24, 1933
Died: February 16, 1985 (aged 51)
Bio: Marian Engel, née Marian Ruth Passmore was an award-winning Canadian novelist and a founding member of the Writers' Union of Canada.
Known for:
  1. The Honeyman festival (1970)
  2. Marian Engel
  3. Tattooed Woman (1985)
  4. Encyclopedia of Birth Control

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