"I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes. Smell what fouled tunes come in to his breath. Love his wretched women."

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I wanted to live in Paris and write nothing but fiction and be perfectly free. I had decided all this had to be settled by the time I was thirty, and so I gave up my job and moved to Paris at twenty-eight. I just held my breath and jumped. I didn’t even look to see if there was water in the pool.

— Mavis Gallant