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“While I can’t have you, I long for you. I am the kind of person who would miss a train or a plane to meet you for coffee. I’d take a taxi across town to see you for ten minutes. I’d wait outside all night if I thought you would open the door in the morning. If you call me and say ‘Will you…’ my answer is ‘Yes’, before your sentence is out. I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.”
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“Just because you're naked doesn't mean you're sexy. Just because you're cynical doesn't mean you're cool.”
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“Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.”
― Sexing the Cherry
― Sexing the Cherry
“People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.”
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“He could see his uncles slugging each other with such force that they had to be in love. Strangers would never want to hurt each other that badly.”
― The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
― The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
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