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Audre Lorde
“I am listening in that fine space between desire and always the grave stillness before choice.”
Audre Lorde, The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems, 1987-1992
tags: poetry

Saul Bellow
“...I am not at all sorry to part with the rest of it. I am no longer to be held accountable for myself. I am grateful for that. I am in other hands, relieved of self determination, freedom canceled. Hooray for regular hours! And, for the supervision of the spirit! Long live regimentation.”
Saul Bellow, Dangling Man

William Melvin Kelley
“People guide you and you don't even know it. You don't have simple traitors anymore like Benedict Arnold”
William Melvin Kelley, Dunfords Travels Everywheres

John Kennedy Toole
“Possession of anything new or expensive only reflected a person's lack of theology and geometry; it could even cast doubts upon one's soul.”
John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

Vanessa Place
“Aquinas said if you have knowledge you don’t need faith, and I think he was on to something, but for now all I can do is find the Church of Inadvertent Joy, and if and when I do, I’ll stumble in and drop fifty cents in the brass-plated poor box, ignite a beeswax candle and confess myself at the crossroads. Having professed my faithlessness, I will be blessed, and the psoriasis or eczema that’s thickened my feet and shattered the skin of my hands will instantly melt, for confession is good for the sole and fine for the fingers. Aquinas also said evil is a privation, ergo hell is a place that’s a void. The heavenly need for placement being motivation for all maps, including a face.”
Vanessa Place, La Medusa

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