Jonathan Katabira
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Eve Babitz
“I did not become famous but I got near enough to smell the stench of success. It smelt like burnt cloth and rancid gardenias, and I realized that the truly awful thing about success is that it's held up all those years as the thing that would make everything all right. And the only thing that makes things even slightly bearable is a friend who knows what you're talking about.”
Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

Melissa Febos
“Navel-gazing is not for the faint of heart. The risk of honest self-appraisal requires bravery. To place our flawed selves in the context of this magnificent, broken world is the opposite of narcissism, which is building a self-image that pleases you.”
Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

“Today the culture sees the fact that she wasn’t a mascot of ethnic pride as a demerit rather than an invitation to understand how discriminatory this world once was.”
Mayukh Sen, Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star

Ted Hughes
“Nobody wanted your dance,
Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your floundering
Drowning life and your effort to save yourself,
Treading water, dancing the dark turmoil,
Looking for something to give.”
Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters

Ted Hughes
“He could not stand. It was not
That he could not thrive, he was born
With everything but the will –
That can be deformed, just like a limb.
Death was more interesting to him.
Life could not get his attention.”
Ted Hughes, Season songs

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