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It's a friendly act to write a lighthearted book.

Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.

From Lydia Millet

I wanted to write about this tropical honeymoon in part because I had the most drastically terrible honeymoon.

From Lydia Millet

The Free Body Culture gave me a gift I might never have received had I refused to play along. It left me with an acute sense of the absurd - one I still cherish - to be there among my fellow apes, awkward and less than half-willing, aiming and missing, leaping, landing and wincing.

From Lydia Millet

When I was 16, I went to Berlin - West Berlin, since at that time a wall still divided the city - to live for three months with a family on an exchange program.

From Lydia Millet

I came to understand that a German nudist, in 1984, loved little more than to work on his or her tan.

From Lydia Millet

At 16, I was more resilient and easygoing than I am now.

From Lydia Millet

I worry about the very pernicious way we elevate and separate ourselves from other beasts, the way we rationalize our comfort and ease, our worship of the self, as healthy. It's enticing, but with a terrible taint of evil.

From Lydia Millet

I used to try to write around the edges, but now I try to walk a more direct line.

From Lydia Millet

Snark describes a cynical position, and I'm not interested in that.

From Lydia Millet

Lydia Millet

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