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“Surely the earth can be saved
by all the people
who insist
on love.”
― Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful
by all the people
who insist
on love.”
― Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful
“Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke . . . She will need her sisterhood.”
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“Over a lifetime of dealing with difficult women, I have learned it is often better to give into their demands immediately.”
― When Demons Walk
― When Demons Walk
“I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name
My name is my own my own my own
and I can’t tell you who the hell set things up like this
but I can tell you that from now on my resistance
my simple and daily and nightly self-determination
may very well cost you your life”
― Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems
My name is my own my own my own
and I can’t tell you who the hell set things up like this
but I can tell you that from now on my resistance
my simple and daily and nightly self-determination
may very well cost you your life”
― Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems
“To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?”
― Midnight’s Children
― Midnight’s Children
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