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I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that i wasn't ready for the world. i've always arrived too late for my life.
-Nicole Krauss
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I Like To Think The World Wasn't

Nicole Krauss
I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that i wasn't ready for the world. i've always arrived too late for my life.
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Maybe it’s my own fault. maybe i led you to believe it was easy when it wasn’t. maybe i made you think my highlights started at the free throw line, and not in the gym. maybe i made you think that every shot i took was a game winner. that my game was built on flash, and not fire. maybe it’s my fault that you didn’t see that failure gave me strength; that my pain was my motivation. maybe i led you to believe that basketball was a god given gift, and not something i worked for every single day of my life. maybe i destroyed the game. or maybe you’re just making excuses.
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If i had been a different sort of person, maybe less impressionable, less intense, less fearful, less utterly dependent upon the perceptions of others - maybe then i would not have bought the cultural party line that thinness is the be-all and end-all of goals. maybe if my family had not been in utter chaos most of the time, maybe if my parents were a little better at dealing with their own lives maybe if i'd gotten help sooner, or if i'd gotten different help, maybe if i didn't so fiercely cherish my secret, or if i were not such a good liar, or were not quite so empty inside... maybe.
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It's too late. it was too late by the time i arrived in london to turn your notebook into a dove; there were too many people already involved. anything either of us does has an effect on everyone here, on every patron who walks through those gates. hundreds if not thousands of people. all flies in a spiderweb that was spun when i was six years old and now i can barely move for fear of losing someone else.
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