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Samuel R. Delany
“Bitch, on that world, was what men called women they were extremely fond of or extremely displeased with when the woman was not there.”
Samuel R. Delany, Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand

Christina Stead
“[...] she had written Clare a letter in school yesterday afternoon and delivered it herself on the way home. In this letter she had mildly said, «Everyone thinks I am sullen, surly, sulky, grim; but I am the two hemispheres of Ptolemaic marvels, I am lost Atlantis risen from the sea, the Western Isles of infinite promise, the apples of the Hesperides and daily make the voyage to Cytherea, island of snaky trees and abundant shade with leaves large and dripping juice, the fruit that is my heart, but I have a thousand hearts hung on every trees, yes, my heart drips alone every fence paling. I am mad with my heart which beats too much in the world and falls in love at every instant with every reflection that glimmers in it.» And much more of this, which she was accustomed to write to Clare, stuff almost without meaning, but yet which seemed to have the entire meaning of life for her, and which made Clare exclaim a dozen times,
«Oh, Louie, I can’t believe it, when I get your letters, you are the same person: when I meet you at school I keep looking at you in surprise!»”
Christina Stead, The Man Who Loved Children

Helen Oyeyemi
“It was the usual struggle between one who loves by accepting burdens and one who loves by refusing to be one.”
Helen Oyeyemi, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

Donald Barthelme
“How old are you Hogo.” “Thirty-five Jane. A not unpleasant age to be.” “You don’t mind then. That you are not young.” “It has its buggy aspects as what does not?” “You don’t mind then that you are sagging in the direction of death.” “No, Jane.”
Donald Barthelme, Snow White

Thomas Mann
“Whoever loves the more is at a disadvantage and must suffer”
Thomas Mann, Tonio Kröger

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