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Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all the force of a fatal disease. Obviously I am here, a mind and a body. To say there's no proof my body exists would be arty and specious and if my mind is more ephemeral, less provable . . .

Source: Nine Months in the Life of an Old Maid, pt. 2 (1969).
-- Judith Rossner, (Mar 31 1935-2005), US novelist; She is best known for her novel Looking for Mr Goodbar, 1975.

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