I think that what I knew as a teenager, and what I rediscovered in my mid-forties, was - … - Claire Dederer

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There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.

Claire Dederer

I think that what I knew as a teenager, and what I rediscovered in my mid-forties, was - aside from the primacy of sexual desire and how strongly it rules me - this idea that we are lucky to feel something. Even if that something is sadness.

Primacy, Sadness, Teenager, Think, Thinking

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I carefully lifted out of the pose and spoke up: Uh, Fran? When I'm doing the pose (camel), I have this feeling in my chest, kind of a scary, tight feeling. -Fran was adjusting someone across the room. She had a way of looking like a thoughtful seamstress when she made adjustments: an inch let out here, a seam straightened there, and everything would be just right. She might as well have had pins tucked between her lips and a tape measure around her neck. Without missing a beat or looking up she said, Oh, that's fear. Try the pose again. -Fear. I hadn't even known it was there.

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I've been asked several times since the book Love and Trouble came out, "Are you still sad?" And I'm not, not in the way I was before. I do feel like it was a season in hell that I passed through. But now I'm in despair and sad and confused every day because of our political situation. So the question is: Is it harder or easier to be sad with a reason?

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The patchwork nature of the forms are a reflection of sexuality itself.

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The book Love and Trouble is asserting that sexuality lives inside us, and in the culture, and in the people who do things to us - and the forms reflect that.

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Drinking and taking drugs. I think there was also a sort of druggie or trance-like nature to the way that I used sex as a child.

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