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It Chooses You

In the summer of 2009 Miranda July was struggling to write her second screenplay, The Future, when she began to obsessively read the PennySaver classified ads. The iconic Los Angeles newsprint booklet served a computerless demographic—a

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“It would require constant vigilance to not replace each person with my own fictional version of them.”

— Miranda July, amazon.com

Tagged: People, Life, fiction

“I knew the beginning and the end – I just had to dream up a convincing middle.”

— Miranda July, amazon.com

Tagged: Beginning, Ending, Life, Creative Process, Writing

“Most of life is offline, and I think it always will be; eating and aching and sleeping and loving happen in the body. But it's not impossible to imagine losing my appetite for those things; they aren't always easy, and they take so much time. In twenty years I'd be interviewing air and water and hea…”

— Miranda July, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Living, elements, Aching, Loving

“It was an act of devotion. A little like writing or loving someone — it doesn’t always feel worthwhile, but not giving up somehow creates unexpected meaning over time.”

— Miranda July, amazon.com

Tagged: Meaning, Devotion, Love, Writing, Not Giving Up

“All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.”

— Miranda July, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Living, coping

“It would require constant vigilance to not replace each person with my own fictional version of them.”

— Miranda July, amazon.com

Tagged: Relationships, Illusion, INFP, ENFP, Imagination