Mary Gaitskill Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: b. November 11, 1954
Birthday: November 11
People tend to set themselves up in patterns; something happens, it hurts them, then something similar happens, and - it's happened again! It seems much bigger then, and they get worried and go through life looking for that thing, and because they're so concerned and looking for it, when anything that happens resembles that thing, they're sure it's happening again. So sometimes people think things are repeating even when they're not.
source: Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2009. 
topic: Hurt, Thinking, People, Happening Again
