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“Accept it, I am this malleable clay. You can shape me as you wish into innumerable forms: everything will resemble me.”
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“Despite all manner of degradation, humans stubbornly resist their own erasure. They refuse the role that fascists have written for them. They mock their oppressors. They create and love.”
― Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund
― Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund
“Here it was, then: the true start of that other road which-like a spool of yellow ribbon—would soon unwind across the whole of this beautiful poppy-filled landscape.”
― Wish Her Safe at Home
― Wish Her Safe at Home
“She reminded me of a tulip, almost, the way she bent forward at the waist to hand me a lighted joint.”
― Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
― Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
“Creating herself. Creating themselves. The performance of it. The confusion of it. The pleasure of it...Making a life. Making a life with love in it. Creating a body with no shame in it...Creating a body of work. That no one else could have written.”
― My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein
― My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein
Julia’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Julia’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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