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“She would tell me parts of her story, but they never added up, and, intoxicated, I probed no further. I was grateful that Moira Orfei was endless, and that she never told me the true story of her difficult life.”
― Wayne Koestenbaum, Circus: Or, Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes

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“The poetic line, a grave and timeless portal, requires a very simple password.”
― Wayne Koestenbaum, Figure It Out

tags: essay, on-writing, poetry

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“Later I will systemize my impossible subject, but for the moment I want to enjoy a tentative movement between its different chambers. I am not certain which are important and which are extraneous. Nor am I certain whether this topic is one that I have the strength to pursue.”
― Wayne Koestenbaum, Figure It Out

tags: essay, essayist, on-writing, writing

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“He’d write a character for himself. His character would be tall, much taller than he is now. And his sisters would recognize him as dashing. He’d have personal freedom, his own, a way to escape, to escape from them all.”
― Douglas A. Martin, Branwell: A Novel of the Brontë Brother

tags: branwell, bronte, escape, fiction, historical-novel, writing

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“I tend to join trends as they're cresting— I told you I was cursed with the initials F.A.D. Astrology's gone in and out of style before; right now, it's peaking in popularity, because people are desperate for a meaning system more nourishing than capitalism.”
― Fiona Alison Duncan, Exquisite Mariposa

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