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Maggie Nelson: “I can remember a time when I took Henry James’s advice—“Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!”—deeply to heart. I think I was then imagining that the net effect of becoming one of those people would always be one of accretion. Whereas if you truly become someone on whom nothing is lost, then loss will not be lost upon you, either.
Andy Warhol, Living Room, 1943 Maggie Nelson: I can remember a time when I took Henry James’s advice—“Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!”—deeply to heart. I think I was then imagining that the net effect of becoming one of those people would always be one of accretion. Whereas if you truly become someone on whom nothing is lost, then loss will not be lost upon you, either. I spent my first three years in San Francisco feeling inadequate and terminally bored, waiting for the best minds of my generation to text me back. Walking around the Mission and the Sunset and eating…
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