“I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”
― Violent Silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille
― Violent Silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille
“There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.”
― Pussy, King of the Pirates
― Pussy, King of the Pirates
“...what I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions I impose upon the fine surface: I read on, I skip, I look up, I dip in again. Which has nothing to do with the deep laceration the text of bliss inflicts upon language itself, and not upon the simple temporality of its reading.”
― The Pleasure of the Text
― The Pleasure of the Text
“People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
― Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
― Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“i am a limitless series of natural disasters and all of these disasters have been unnaturally repressed.”
― Pussy, King of the Pirates
― Pussy, King of the Pirates
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