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“Tomorrow the One Who Has No Name, he mused, might become He Who Has No Identity, and then He Who Has No Body, and then He Who Can't Be Caught and Thrown in Jail.”
― Frankenstein in Baghdad
― Frankenstein in Baghdad
“Not content with being Pope Joan, you must be Caesar and Alexander as well.”
― Saint Joan
― Saint Joan
“Each day the enforcers pushed me into a sustained rage laced with contempt; and each day the Seducer manipulated my anger and loneliness, pushed me further into experiencing intelligence as a sexualized mark of Cain and artistic ambition as a sexualized delinquency.”
― Life and Death: Unapologetic Writings on the Continuing War Against Women
― Life and Death: Unapologetic Writings on the Continuing War Against Women
“You can't step into the same stream twice because it's always flowing. Everything is.”
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
“With money I earned by myself, I gave my daughter a room just so she can read in peace for a day. And I sat there and watched her read, sipping a scotch from the bar. And I cried like a baby. And Lina, my little Lina, she said, 'Mama, why are you crying?' And I said, ' I know how God feels now.”
― The Emperor of Gladness
― The Emperor of Gladness
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