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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

by Jeanette Winterson

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Jul 18, 2012 10:49PM

“We are not supposed to go down into the darkness of the core. Yet, if we can risk it, the something born of that nothing is the beginning of truth.”
― Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence. Selected Prose 1966-1978

tags: truth

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“Eurydice sits alone on a red bed. She has flaming red hair, so flaming that you can't see anything else of her, much less anything else around her.
She takes up too much space. Also she's mad. Which has nothing to do with anything. She lives in her own world because she makes the whole world hers.”
― Kathy Acker, Eurydice in the Underworld

tags: bed, eurydice, mad, red

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“Secrecy and silence are the perpetrator’s first line of defense. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure that no one listens.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

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“My flesh looked like it wasn't trying. It looked like it hated being part of me.”
― Charles Bukowski, Pulp: Charles Bukowski's Final Hardboiled Noir Comedy – Lady Death, Aliens, and the Absurd

tags: ugly

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“Moreover, the 3.2 million people enslaved in the United States had a market value of $1.3 billion in 1850—one-fifth of the nation’s wealth and almost equal to the entire gross national product. They were more liquid than other forms of American property, even if an acre of land couldn’t run away or kill an overseer with an axe.14”
― Edward E. Baptist, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

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