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“Reading is not just a pastime or a luxury – but a precondition of democratic life.”
― Who’s Afraid of Gender?
― Who’s Afraid of Gender?
“I’m forced to face the unsettling reality that the people who are supposed to protect us are sometimes the same people we need protection from.”
― Down the Drain
― Down the Drain
“Artists choose their purpose as much as they are chosen by that purpose. In a certain way, art is a revolt against the world in that it encompasses what is fleeting and unfinished: art does not, therefore, take on anything more than the purpose of giving another shape to a reality that it is, nevertheless, constrained to conserve, because reality is the source of art’s emotion. In this respect, we are all realists and no one is a realist. Art is neither total rejection nor total acceptance of what is. It is both rejection and acceptance, at one and the same time, and that is why it can be continually and perpetually torn apart. Artists always find themselves dealing with this ambiguity, incapable of rejecting what is real, yet still devoted to challenging the ever-unfinished aspects of reality.”
― Create Dangerously
― Create Dangerously
“The rest of the trip, I’m fuming. Did I seriously just wait sixteen hours to get slapped in the face in front of the dead pope? I didn’t even get to have a moment with him!”
― Down the Drain
― Down the Drain
“As I belonged nowhere on the conventional spectrum of sexual orientation, I allowed people to assume I was heterosexual, and I suppose I was, as all planes are male in spirit, just as all boats are female, and helicopters possess the souls of mischievous children.”
― Sky Daddy
― Sky Daddy
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