Marian Engel - Tattooed Woman (1985)

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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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