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• I could not make a move without making love.

  Miranda July

  Moving, Making Love, Make A Move

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• I wish there were a class where we could just keep going around the circle. around and around, until we had finally said everything about ourselves.

  Miranda July

  Class, Circles, Wish

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• If you are sad, ask yourself why you are sad. Then pick up the phone and call someone and tell him the answer to the question. If you don't know anyone, call the operator and tell him. Most people don't know that the operator has to listen, it is a law. Also, the postman is not allowed to go inside your house, but you can talk to him on public property for up to four minutes or until he wants to go, whichever comes first.

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  Phones, Law, People

  "No One Belongs Here More Than You". Book by Miranda July, November 2, 2005.

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• … it wasn’t pretend, I wasn’t in a fairytale or a fable. I shut my eyes and absorbed the silent whoomp that always accompanies this revelation. It’s the sound of the real world, gigantic and impossible, replacing the smaller version of reality that I wear like a bonnet, clutched tightly under my chin.

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  Real, Eye, Sound

  Miranda July (2011). “It Chooses You”, p.14, Canongate Books

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• All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.

  Miranda July

  People, Body, Want

  Miranda July (2011). “It Chooses You”, p.49, Canongate Books

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• We were always getting away with something, which implied that someone was always watching us, which meant that we were not alone in this world.

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  Mean, World, Get Away

  "Something That Needs Nothing". www.newyorker.com. September 18, 2006.

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• He was worried she would not let him love her with the stain. He had already decided long ago, twenty or thirty minutes ago, that the stain was fine. He had only seen it for a moment, but he was already used to it. It was good. It somehow allowed them to have more.

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  Long Ago, Twenties, Moments

  Miranda July (2007). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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• It was a small thing, but it was a thing, and things have a way of either dying or growing, and it wasn’t dying.

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  Dying, Growing, Way

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• And why had Deb's last boyfriend dumped her? I dumped him. Maybe you didn't French-kiss him enough. I promise you that wasn't it. Tell me how many times a day you kissed, and I'll say if it was enough. Four hundred. Not enough.

  Miranda July

  Kissing, Promise, Dumped Her

  Miranda July (2007). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, Simon and Schuster

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• It occurred to me that everyone’s story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk.

  Miranda July

  Stories, Matter, Wanted

  Miranda July (2011). “It Chooses You”, p.13, Canongate Books

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• We had loved people we really shouldn't have loved and then married other people in order to forget our impossible loves, or we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.

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  Running, Order, People

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was fifteen, a dark shape came into my room at night. It was dark, but it glowed, which is the first of many facts you will have to tackle with your imagination. It wasn't in the shape of a person, but right away I knew it was like a person in every way except for how it looked. As it turns out, our looks are not the main thing that makes us human.

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  Dark, Night, Imagination

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• He pulled away, but his eyes held my eyes like hands.

  Miranda July

  Eye, Hands, His Eyes

  Miranda July (2007). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• When she saw my messy desk, she said she was the same way, and there was no dust on the TV, and I was easy to love. People just need a little help because they are so used to not loving. It's like scoring the clay to make another piece of clay stick to it.

  Miranda July

  Dust, People, Clay

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• He's stuck at 3:14 a.m. with only the moon to talk to.

  Miranda July

  Moon, Stuck

  Miranda July (2011). “It Chooses You”, p.5, Canongate Books

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• Sometimes I would make left turns all the way around a block, and when I returned to the original intersection, I would feel disappointed to find all the drivers were new. It wasn't like a square dance, where you miraculously end up with your original partner, laughing and feeling giddily relieved to find him after dancing with everyone else in the world. Instead, they swung around and kept on going, some people were at work by now, or halfway to the airport. In fact, driving might be the thing most opposite of dancing.

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  Block, Airports, Squares

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• This person realizes that staying home means blowing off everyone this person has ever known. But the desire to stay in is very strong. This person wants to run a bath and then read in bed.

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  Running, Strong, Home

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• I went to the bedroom and lay on the floor, so as not to mess up the covers.

  Miranda July

  Bedroom, Mess, Lays

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• He seemed to be waiting for me to move forward. Weren't we all.

  Miranda July

  Moving, Moving Forward, Waiting

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• Some may say that such a girl is not ready for a relationship with a man, especially a man in his late sixties. But to that I say: We don't know anything. We don't know how to cure a cold or what dogs are thinking. We do terrible things, we make wars, we kill people out of greed. So who are we to say how to love. I wouldn't force her. I wouldn't have to. She would want me. We would be in love. What do you know. You don't know anything. Call me when you've cured AIDS, give me a ring then and I'll listen.

  Miranda July

  Girl, Dog, War

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• It was a real whale, a photograph of a real whale. I looked into its tiny wise eye and wondered where that eye was now. Was it alive and swimming, or had it died long ago, or was it dying now, right this second? When a whale dies, it falls down through the ocean slowly, over the course of a day. All the other fish see it fall, like a giant statue, like a building, but slowly, slowly.

  Miranda July

  Wise, Real, Ocean

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Are you angry? Punch a pillow. Was it satisfying? Not hardly. These days people are too angry for punching. What you might try is stabbing. Take an old pillow and lay it on the front lawn. Stab it with a big pointy knife. Again and again and again. Stab hard enough for the point of the knife to go into the ground. Stab until the pillow is gone and you are just stabbing the earth again and again, as if you want to kill it for continuing to spin, as if you are getting revenge for having to live on this planet day after day, alone.

  Miranda July

  Revenge, Knives, People

  "The shared patio" by Miranda July, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2007.

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• Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else.

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  Crazy, Broken, Way

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• In the weeks that followed, we amazed ourselves. Our habits slid apart easily...And our very few intimacies were simply discontinued. Where did they go, those things we did? Were they recycled? Did some new couple in China do them? Were a Swedish man and woman foot to foot at this very moment?

  Miranda July

  Couple, Men, Feet

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• I was going to die and it was taking forever.

  Miranda July

  Forever, Dies

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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