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“Francis stayed with me and was patiently kind to me; but when we were fucking I began to cry again out of weakness and fear that he was fucking me, as a man does to a woman or out of fear that I liked it. I couldn’t find his mind, or his heart; he was away in his own travelling.”
― Monkey Grip
― Monkey Grip
“Fiction may be only fancy yet reality is often no more than the enthusiastic answer we give to our dreams and nightmares.”
― Question 7
― Question 7
“either we hold on to the possibility of moral judgement of their terrible deeds and then we must blame them; or we refuse to blame and must then relinquish the possibility of moral judgement.”
― A Common Humanity: Thinking about Love and Truth and Justice
― A Common Humanity: Thinking about Love and Truth and Justice
“Chekhov’s line that ‘both the strong and the weak fall victim to their own relationships with one another’ has the ring of forbidden truth. Who would dare write such a line like that today? Who would dare even think it?”
― Question 7
― Question 7
“Though I tried to be honest, it was still happening and so it was dishonest. That’s what I couldn’t see then that I see now, that though it happened then it’s still happening now and it won’t ever stop happening, and that writing about it, that writing about anything, can’t be an opinion about what happened as if it had already happened when it is still happening, still unintelligible, still mysterious, and all writing is trapped in tenses when life isn’t.”
― Question 7
― Question 7
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