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"It's much more interesting for me to think that taking a chunk of experience and mushing it up toget..." — Helen Garner
It's much more interesting for me to think that taking a chunk of experience and mushing it up together with other things that are inventible, remembered from some other time or stolen from other people's stories... and see if I can make it into something that works, an object, a little machine that runs.
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