“No daring is fatal. The whole logic of the universe is contained in daring, in creating from the flimsiest, slenderest support.”
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“The original Gothic horror tales focused on personalities deformed through loneliness. Ghouls, vampires, werewolves: all made, not born. But the isolation? Are even such as these ever truly alone? Perhaps the psyche has always been more complex than that, desire eternally more potent than terror. Surely, none prowl entirely in solitude.”
― Martyrs and Monsters
― Martyrs and Monsters
“Even the spate of clearly well-intentioned films about AIDS only added to the certainty that gay characters wind up dead by the final reel. After all, in the movies, no one lives with HIV ... perhaps the ultimate stigmatization.”
― Vortex
― Vortex
“The good news is I peed before going to sleep.”
― The Life of the Mind
― The Life of the Mind
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