“I believed then that if you had a good encounter with a person, it was best not to see them again for as long as possible.”

—  Curtis Sittenfeld , book Prep

Source: Prep (2005), p. 159 cited in: The New Yorker (2004). Vol. 80, Nr. 38-45. p.87

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Novelist, short story writer 1975

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