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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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“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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“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’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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“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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