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There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question have lived relatively comfortable, middle class lives. They function perfectly well in the world, but you can imagine, given a nasty parent, or a prolonged bout of unemployment, how their potential for craziness might have been realized.

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It's always a disappointing business confronting my own reflection. My body isn't bad. It's a perfectly nice, serviceable body. It's just that the external me- the study, lightly wrinkled, handbagged me- does so little credit to the stuff that's inside.

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It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.

Zoë Heller

For most people, honesty is such an unusual departure from their standard modus operandi - such an abherration in their workaday mendacity - that they feel obliged to alert you when a moment of sincerity is coming on.

Zoë Heller

Zoë Heller

Zoë Heller

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Born: July 7, 1965 (age 59)

Bio: Zoë Kate Hinde Heller is an English journalist and novelist. She has published three novels, Everything You Know, Notes on a Scandal, and The Believers.

Known for:

Notes on a Scandal (2003)
The Believers (2008)
Everything You Know (1999)
The Believers Unabridged CD (2009)
What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal (2006)

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