Elizabeth Strout

ever since I wrote that book I've been thinking about it and I realize it's actually a fun thing to think about you know because some days I think well you know I'll think to myself I don't think we have as much wiggle room as we think we do and then other days I'll think no we we can make decisions we're you know we're freer than we might believe but I really don't know I really don't know I think there's many things at play you know like who we're born where we're born what time we're born in yeah but you know what all that is luck

Precisely.

So much of it is look like.

But that's precisely it.

Exactly.

Exactly.

Yeah.

Or on look.

Exactly.

Precisely.

Yeah.

And I mean, I guess, I don't know if I would dare say that fully, but we are who we are.

And then, but with Artie and with everybody, I mean, we do have our interior life, right?

which is always so interesting to me.

And Artie has... We all do.

We all have so much stuff going on inside ourselves.

Yes.

And that is our own.

And whether we...

recognize it or not, but we're all made up of so many different sort of moving parts, like I said.