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Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the…
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Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
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Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
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I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed…
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Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world…
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Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous…
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Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time.
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Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different. Men eat themselves up believing they have to be the thing…
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Behind my carefully buttoned collar is my nakedness, the struggle to find clean clothes, food, meaning, and money. Behind sex is rage,…
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It ain't that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won't let you drink a little whiskey. Won't…
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One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
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Two or three things I know, two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that to go…
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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the…
— Italo Calvino
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You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has…
— Thomas Sowell
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I have the sense that if I push too hard or too far into memory I’ll come apart.
— Harold Brodkey
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Yoga, like meditation, offers a method for coming together after you've come apart.
— Cyndi Lee
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The more that you bypass of your own mechanisms, the more in your self that will come apart.
— John de Ruiter
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Neil Shepard's (T)RAVEL/ UN(T)RAVEL takes us from the sublime -- Paris in Spring, sunset on Corfu -- to an unscheduled toilet stop…
— Charles Harper Webb
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If we don't come apart; we will come apart.
— Vance Havner
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I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.
— Janet Fitch
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I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people.…
— Aldous Huxley
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The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only…
— Janet Fitch
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Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
— Dorothy Allison
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