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Durre’s Quotes

“It matters what you call a thing.”
― Solmaz Sharif, Look: Poems

tags: naming, poetry

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“When you expose a problem you pose a problem. It might then be assumed that the problem would go away if you would just stop talking about or if you went away.”
― Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life

tags: feminism

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“I was going. I couldn’t stay here. Every breath of its stale air, every square inch of the place mocked me, grabbed at my ankles. It needed blood to survive and it wasn’t going to get mine.”
― Roddy Doyle, A Star Called Henry

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“Freedom without opportunity is a devil’s gift.”
― Noam Chomsky

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“Cats are not adoring like dogs. They don’t care. They can never be relied upon to shore up a human ego. They go their way, do their thing, are not subservient and will never apologise. No one has ever come across a cat apologising and if a cat did, it would patently be obvious it was not being sincere.”
― Anna Burns, Milkman

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