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It’s up to you to break the old circuits. – Hélène Cixous, ‘The Laugh of the Medusa’
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George Seferis
“Old friend, what are you looking for?
After those many years abroad you come
With images you tended
Under foreign skies
far away from your own land.”
George Seferis

Lili Anolik
“My preoccupation was unbalanced, fetishistic. Sick is what it was. And it made me sick - anxious and grasping and, in some obscure yet vital sense, self-abandoned. I needed to stop living her life, reclaim my own. I needed to get violent.”
Lili Anolik, Didion and Babitz

Eve Babitz
“And because we were in Southern California-in Hollywood even-there was no history for us. There were no books or traditions telling us how we could turn out or what anything meant.”
Eve Babitz

Sally Rooney
“I felt that I was a damaged person who deserved nothing.”
Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“You Never Know Where A Conversation Is Going To Go

Said Ricky to me one day, "Why is it you
don't have a tail?"

Well, I just don't. Maybe once upon a time
I had one, but not anymore.

"What happened? Did you have an accident?

No, no. Things change. Sometimes. Over
time.

"You mean, maybe sometime I won't get a walk,
I won't get dinner? I won't get hugs? That's
scary, plain scary."

No, no, it takes a really long time. In
fact, some things change, over time, and
some don't.

"Well, how do I know what's what?"

Day by day, Ricky. You find out.
Has anything changed that troubles you?

"Actually, nothing. I like everything a lot,
every day."

Well, see? Just keep on liking things.
And praying.

"I don't know anything about that."

Yes you do. Every time you wake up and
love your life and the world, you're
praying, my dear boy. I'm sure of it.”
Mary Oliver, Dog Songs: Poems

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