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“Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It's up to you.”
― Everything, Everything
― Everything, Everything
“O my friends!- to be queer was very bliss. The fifties was the last great age of queerdom. All the talk now is of freedom and pride (pride!), but there young hotheads in their pink bell-bottoms, clamouring for the right to do it in the streets if they feel like it, do not seem to appreciate, or at least seem to wish to deny, the aphrodisiac properties of secrecy and fear”
― The Untouchable
― The Untouchable
“In my world, there are no simple questions, and precious few answers of any kind. If you are going to write about me, you must resign yourself to that.”
― The Untouchable
― The Untouchable
“Nonetheless, the past is part of your present consciousness—it forms the spectacles through which you experience the present.”
― Lying On The Couch
― Lying On The Couch
“I've been in love with you for weeks.'
There's no such thing,' she says. 'It's a rhetorical device. It's a bourgeois fallacy.'
Haven't you ever been in love, then?'
When I was younger,' she says, 'I allowed myself to be constructed by the discourse of romantic love for a while, yes.'
What the hell does that mean?'
We aren't essences, Vic. We aren't unique individual essences existing prior to language. There is only language.”
―
There's no such thing,' she says. 'It's a rhetorical device. It's a bourgeois fallacy.'
Haven't you ever been in love, then?'
When I was younger,' she says, 'I allowed myself to be constructed by the discourse of romantic love for a while, yes.'
What the hell does that mean?'
We aren't essences, Vic. We aren't unique individual essences existing prior to language. There is only language.”
―
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