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“I inherited this longing. I was addicted to it. And so I was at home with those who wanted and never had enough. I was at home in the places that could never be. The places found only in dreams.”
“Nightmares always recur, but never our most beautiful dreams.”
“I slowly lost any dream for myself. No one warned me of this, that the stars in New York can infect the light inside, that they can trap you in their shadow. Dylan was of course a star. He had achi...”
“We are all cursed. We live in the era of the curse. A world that cannot be fixed. The best thing would be an alien ship. Another planet. One with three moons. But you, I saw you in my dreams. I saw...”
“I never do enjoy my breaks, long or short...I look forward to them intensely, but as soon as they begin, I can feel them starting to end. I feel the temporariness of my freedom, and find it hard to...”
“Goddamn, sometimes it hurt to be free.”
“Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of power kill children, the old send the young to die, because th...”
“The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one could argue, to whom one could ...”
“You are no longer responsible. You are no longer allowed to give a shit. Nobody can need you ever again. Go.”
“A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones. ”
“We first become aware of freedom or its opposite in our intercourse with others, not in the intercourse with ourselves.”
“I have this love for Mattie. It was formed in me as he himself was formed. It has his shape, you might say. He fits it. He fits into it as he fits into his clothes. He will always fit into it. When...”
“Beware of fascist feminism.”
“A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE...AND THE SENATE.”
“Feminists are incapable of crafting a coherent argument using their words. It almost always involves menstrual blood or some sort of reference to ladyparts.”
“I could have been 23 next July I gambled on what mattered most, the dice were cast. I lost.”
“It must be comforting, to have a faith like that. To believe so concretely that theres someonesomething out there watching guard, keeping us safe, testing us only with what we can handle.”
“Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interestforces that look like sh...”
“The measure of a society is its compassion.”
“A story might help you get through your life, he said, but it doesn't literally keep you alive -- if anything, most often people who have power turn their story into a brick wall keeping out somebo...”
