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Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the Greeks or our own, than to lose control completely?
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“The books that the world calls immoral books are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
― Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
“To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.”
― Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
― Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
“A good woman. How odd that the phrase has such a particular meaning. One might say “a good man” and mean anything — there are as many ways of being a good man, it seems, as there are of being a man at all. But there is only one way to be a good woman. It is such a narrow, stunted, blighted way to be that I wonder any woman throughout history has been up to the task. Perhaps none of us ever have.”
― Grey Dog
― Grey Dog
“In principle, all women should give themselves permission to demand good treatment, but the world made doing so profoundly difficult”
― Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder
― Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder
“She had the human look of a domesticated animal.”
― Tender Is the Flesh
― Tender Is the Flesh
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