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Like Frank, she was infinitely restless and easily bored. In both, this  tendency could lead to casual cruelty to others—and sometimes to each  other. Both had titanic appetites, for food, drink, cigarettes,  diversion, companionship, and sex…. Both distrusted sleep…. Both hated  being alone.

from  Frank: The Voice by James Kaplan, reviewed by Geoffrey O’Brien in NYRB.

Like Frank, she was infinitely restless and easily bored. In both, this tendency could lead to casual cruelty to others—and sometimes to each other. Both had titanic appetites, for food, drink, cigarettes, diversion, companionship, and sex…. Both distrusted sleep…. Both hated being alone.

from Frank: The Voice by James Kaplan, reviewed by Geoffrey O’Brien in NYRB.

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