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“We deserve to have our wrongdoing represented as much as our heroism, because when we refuse wrongdoing as a possibility for a group of people, we refuse their humanity.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

tags: complexity, evil, good, humanity, representation, wrongdoing

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“Pylades: I’ll take care of you.
Orestes: It’s rotten work.
Pylades: Not to me. Not if it’s you.”
― Anne Carson, Euripides

tags: an-oresteia, orestes

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“Fear makes liars of us all.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

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“A house is never apolitical. It is conceived, constructed, occupied, and policed by people with power, needs, and fears.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

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“J'aimerais que mon père ait été un requin
Qui eût déchiré quarante baleiniers
(Et dans leur sang j'aurais appris à nager)”
― Heiner Müller, Hamletmachine and Other Texts for the Stage

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