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“Each moment is a leap forwards from the brink of an invisible cliff, where time’s keen edges are constantly renewed. We lift our foot from the solid ground of all our life lived thus far, and take that perilous step out into the empty air. Not because we can claim any particular courage, but because there is no other way.”
― 흰
― 흰
“If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.”
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“Wild how after centuries of us male writers being obsessed with the minutia of our own lives and how they affect our precious processes, now that women are talking publicly about how fucked up men have been everyone suddenly has to be able to separate the art from the artist.”
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“If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble. We read to find life, in all its possibilities.”
― Bad Feminist
― Bad Feminist
“Demented is the man who is always clenching his teeth on that solid, immutable block of stone that is the past.”
― The Story of My Teeth
― The Story of My Teeth
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