The frustration of being marginalized often gets misdirected at the most visible members of one's own community, because … - Melissa Febos

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Having a career is a bit like navigating an Atlantic crossing - you have to make sure everything is keeping and is balanced.

Melissa Febos

The frustration of being marginalized often gets misdirected at the most visible members of one's own community, because they are more accessible than the real agents of marginalization.

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It has been my experience that the people I judge most harshly are the ones in whom I recognize some part of myself.

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New York at night, from its bridges, is a miracle. When I first came to the city, it took all my fantasies and set them on fire, turned them into flickering constellations of light.

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Abandonment by a lover won't kill us. But it awakens the parts of us that remember when it could.

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I was in the fantasy. I was selling myself on the fantasy as I was doing it. It never occurred to me. I did take notes, but just because I am a writer. I've been a writer since I was five. You don't have any sort of outlandish, shocking, extraordinary, horrifying experience without writing it down, because I know and knew that you forget things. No matter how outrageous and amazing and extraordinary and seemingly unforgettable an experience is, it's kind of like a dream. It will erode inevitably, for me.

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I could not kick heroin to save my life, literally, until I started telling my secrets. It was some of the clearest evidence I've ever found of anything. It was the only immediate change in behavior I've ever undergone. I told the most frightening truths, and I was free.

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