“This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody’s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has already staked its claim on them from the moment they appear onscreen.”
― Wolf in White Van
― Wolf in White Van
“Who was I now—woman or man? That question could never be answered as long as those were the only choices; it could never be answered if it had to be asked.”
― Stone Butch Blues
― Stone Butch Blues
“There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.”
― Wolf in White Van
― Wolf in White Van
“Why frighten little children with the dark when one can quiet them with it and lead them into dreams?”
― Autobiography of a Corpse
― Autobiography of a Corpse
“We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.”
― The Poetics of Space
― The Poetics of Space
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