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"I want to be a guard at the gate of indecision. Want to know the cause of everything, all things. [...] I think he's fabulous, I want to find him flawless, I'm ready to kneel at his feet. I think men tire me. [...] That's where you belong. Permanently framed in a romantic episode. I'll tell you more."

"There is something fascinating about a person's face when they're not falling apart because of their imperfections and self-loathing. Pleasure is a lure."

"We knew, intuitively, that 'Oregon Trail' was about a perverted and risible idea of sex [...] We knew this because there was no option to turn back. There was no option to found a school or become an artist or live on a commune. There was no option to practice philosophy. There was nothing to do but be a family and head west. And we continue to dwell in this country."

"The problem is that, although the membrane that separates the world of commerce [...] from the sensitive surfaces of our bodies is tissue thin and actually nonexistent, everyone goes around acting like it's this impenetrable barrier."

"It doesn't, apparently, need to be this way, but, honestly, who cares about that when you can text that person who makes you feel like your bones are on fire and made of ice, both at the same time?"

"[F]or those who have little or nothing except, sometimes, courage and love, hope works differently. Hope is then something to bite on, to put between the teeth. Don't forget this."

"[T]he human project is totally incoherent. [...] People could choose to behave otherwise, yet they never do. It astounds me. People never stop to consider their own beliefs."

"[Seven Brides for Seven Brothers]' other cherished notion is that it is OK to do violent, criminal things if one does them as part of a group. OK to abduct people, OK to organize a lynching party, OK to "settle" the West, OK to marry the nominally willing, OK to produce families of seven or more children, OK to do it because a mob does it, OK to do it because a nation does so."

"I must take advantage of this narrow opening in my heart."

"I want to remember. Yet, what I want to know even more, what I retain an insatiable hunger for, is knowledge of my relations' lack of desire for memory. It is not history that they have thrown away, for they do not have that power, but rather key parts of their own intimate experience."

"From the Latin imago, image may indicate a three-dimensional representation, such as sculpture; above all, it has to do with imitation [...] Images are not exclusively ocular. Much as memory is not exclusively ocular."