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“I demand wisdom from my fingers: at least they must sound human, and not like spoons and forks! The piano, however, is not a human being. It lies halfway between a friend and a rock. More responsive than a rock. More predictable than a friend.”
― Wayne Koestenbaum, Figure It Out

tags: music, musician, piano

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“I’ve come to think of all my past selves as if they are my daughters. I want to stand up for them, to make sure that even when they were being very bad they were still loved and understood, even if only by their future self.”
― Chelsea Martin, Caca Dolce: Essays from a Lowbrow Life

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“All at once, a deep sadness descended. Why hadn't I known that such possibilities existed before? Why was my childhood a series of miseries and only in my most recent phase of adulthood did delight pop up?

Well, isn't queer adulthood, if one is lucky, having the impossible childhood of your desires?”
― Joss Lake, Future Feeling

tags: lgbtq, queer, speculative-fiction, trans, transgender

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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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“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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