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Woman Hating by Andrea Dworkin

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There is a misery of the body and a misery of the mind, and if the stars, whenever we looked at them, poured nectar into our mouths, and the grass became bread, we would still be sad. We live in a system that manufactures sorrow, spilling ...more

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“Diogenes thought every “sane” person in the world was actually insane for heeding any of the customs upholding a world full of greed, corruption, and ignorance.”
― Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

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“He wanted to forget he'd ever yielded to the weakness of wanting anything. He wanted to scrub away any evidence that he existed outside his own head at all—that he was a visible object that anyone else could see and mock and judge.”
― Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

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“He pulls in a pair of his old muddy, rain boots from when he was thirteen or so and tosses them across the floor at her.”
― Penelope Douglas, Credence

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“He’s drop dead gorgeous and more popular than Justin Bieber. Well, at least before Beebs went off the rails.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Deal

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“There’s this idea in psychoanalysis that I’ve always liked.” Julian pulled himself closer and rested his head in the crook of Paul’s arm. “It’s that what we call ‘love’ is actually letting your identity fill in around the shape of the other person—you love someone by defining yourself against them. It says loss hurts because there’s nothing holding that part of you in place anymore. But your outline still holds, and it keeps holding. The thing you shaped yourself into by loving them, you never stop being that. The marks are permanent, so the idea of the person you loved is permanent, too.”
― Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

tags: love, psychoanalysis

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This is a group solely for those of us who are aspiring young writers with a serious interest in becoming an author, poet, or any other type of writer ...more