“You put off coming out because you thought no one would care, but as it turns out, plenty of people do care, just not in the way you’d hoped.”
― Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much
― Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much
“This is what the most cunning cultish leaders do: Instead of sticking to one unchanging lexis to represent a unified doctrine, they customize their language according to the individual in front of them.”
― Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism—Understanding the Social Science of Cult Influence
― Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism—Understanding the Social Science of Cult Influence
“Maybe confusion is as queer as it gets.”
― Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much
― Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much
“James Joyce called Ireland the “sow that eats her farrow,” but Ireland has nothing on American capitalism.”
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“After the death of the poet Jane Kenyon, her husband Donald Hall wrote, “We did not spend our days gazing into each other’s eyes. We did that gazing when we made love or when one of us was in trouble, but most of the time our gazes met and entwined as they looked at a third thing. Third things are essential to marriages, objects or practices or habits or arts or institutions or games or human beings that provide a site of joint rapture or contentment. Each member of a couple is separate; the two come together in double attention.”
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
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