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The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup (2001)
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An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.
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I really believed that anything at all was worth writing about if you cared about it enough, and that the best and only necessary justification for writing any particular story was that I cared about it.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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(age 69)
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