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“Abajo y a la Izquierda está el Corazón!”
― Ezln Communiques: Navigating the Seas, Dec. 22, 1997-Jan. 29, 1998
― Ezln Communiques: Navigating the Seas, Dec. 22, 1997-Jan. 29, 1998
“History produces not only the forces of domination but also the forces of resistance that press up against and are often the objects of such domination. Which is another way of saying that history, the past, is larger than the present, and is the ever-growing and ongoing possibility of resistance to the present’s imposed values, the possibility of futures not unlike the present, futures that resist and transform what dominates the present.”
― The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely
― The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely
“My library is an archive of longings.”
― As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
― As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
“It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.”
― Babylon Revisited and Other Stories
― Babylon Revisited and Other Stories
“I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore.”
― The Pargiters
― The Pargiters
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