“Do you think anger is a sincere emotion or the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?”
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“The longer I live the more I mistrust
theatricality, the false glamour cast
by performance, the more I know its poverty beside
the truths we are salvaging from
the splitting-open of our lives.
-from "Transcendental Etude”
― The Dream of a Common Language
theatricality, the false glamour cast
by performance, the more I know its poverty beside
the truths we are salvaging from
the splitting-open of our lives.
-from "Transcendental Etude”
― The Dream of a Common Language
“Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.”
― Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
― Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
“The hardest part has been learning how to take myself seriously when the entire world is constantly telling me that femininity is always inferior to masculinity”
― Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
― Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
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