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“The unloved watch the loved perform the small rituals of their loving.”
― The Unloved
― The Unloved
“Who knows their own story? Certainly it makes no sense when we are living in the midst of it. It's all just clamor and confusion. It only becomes a story when we tell it and retell it. Our small precious recollections that we speak again and again to ourselves and to others, first creating the narrative of our lives and then keeping the story from dissolving into darkness.”
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“I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.”
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“People can't help what they feel. It's what they do that counts”
― What I Loved
― What I Loved
“I have always wanted to go to Trieste because it sounds like tristesse, which is a light-hearted word, even though in French it means sadness. In Spanish it is tristeza, which is heavier than French sadness, more of a groan than a whisper.”
― Hot Milk
― Hot Milk
Literary Fiction by People of Color
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