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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…
• Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
• Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
• I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed…
• Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world…
• Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous…
• Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time.
• Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different. Men eat themselves up believing they have to be the thing…
• Behind my carefully buttoned collar is my nakedness, the struggle to find clean clothes, food, meaning, and money. Behind sex is rage,…
• 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…
• One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
• 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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