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Mad Love

by André Breton

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Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s

by Carrie Lambert-Beatty

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Body Is a Clear Place: And Other Statements on Dance

by Erick Hawkins

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“Memory fans out from imagination, and vice versa, and why not. Memory isn’t a well but an offshoot. It goes secretly. Comes apart. Deceives. It’s guilty of repurposing the meaning of deep meaning and poking fun at what you’ve emotionalized.”
― Durga Chew-Bose, Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays

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“Because there is trust too, in feeling small.”
― Durga Chew-Bose, Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays

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“To this day, watching a woman mindlessly tend to one thing while doing something else absorbs me. Like securing the backs of her earrings while wiggling her feet into her shoes. Like staring into some middle distance, where lines soften, and where she separates the relevant from the immaterial.”
― Durga Chew-Bose, Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays

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“Even when I’m caught off guard by a lathery shade of peach on the bottom corner of a painting at the Met, as if being reminded that I haven’t seen all the colors, and how there’s more to see, and how one color’s newness can invalidate all of my sureness.”
― Durga Chew-Bose, Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays

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“I don’t require much to feel far-removed; to impose my wanderings on what’s close. Because of this, my friend and I have started calling ourselves nook people. Those of us who seek corners and bays in order to redeploy our hearts and not break the mood. Those of us who retreat in order to cubicle our flame. Who collect sea glass. Who value a deep pants pocket. Who are our own understudies and may as well have shadowboxes for brains.”
― Durga Chew-Bose, Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays

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