Jude Alford

“...that the basic transaction of life itself was a sad, endless amalgam of public endurance and private indulgence.”
― Stefan Merrill Block, The Story of Forgetting

“Go without hate, but not without rage. Heal the world.”
― Paul Monette

“So exiled have even basic questions of freedom become from the political vocabulary that they sound musty and ridiculous, and vulnerable to the ultimate badge of shame-'That's so 60's!'-the entire decade having been mocked so effectively that social protest seems outlandish and 'so last century,' just another style excess like love beads and Nehru jackets. No, rebellion won't pose a problem for this social order.”
― Laura Kipnis, Against Love: A Polemic