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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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“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’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 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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“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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