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A Wild Sheep Chase
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Being born a woman is my awful tragedy. From the moment I was conceived I
“Being born a woman is my awful tragedy. From the moment I was conceived I was doomed to sprout breasts and ovaries rather than penis and scrotum; to have my whole circle of action, thought and feeling rigidly circumscribed by my inescapable feminity. Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, bar room regulars--to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording--all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yet, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night...”
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

David Foster Wallace
“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

Rachel Cusk
“If he could only love what he did not know, and be loved in return on that same basis, then knowledge became an inexorable disenchantment, for which the only cure was to fall in love with someone new.”
Rachel Cusk, Outline

Elena Ferrante
“In what disorder we lived, how many fragments of ourselves were scattered, as if to live were to explode into splinters.”
Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child
tags: life

Phoebe Waller-Bridge
“I think you know how to love better than any of us. That's why you find it all so painful.”
Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures
tags: love

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