Becoming Quote by James Tiptree Jr

“Being, I imagine, must be very simple. It is Becoming which is so messy and which I am all for.”

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Man is an animal whose dreams come true and kill him.

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“DOCTOR AIN WAS recognized on the Omaha-Chicago flight. A biologist colleague from Pasadena came out of the toilet and saw Ain in an aisle…

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All I can say is that laughter is my music; I would deeply suspect an argument which hadn't laughter.

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good is too often allied with vulnerability and evil with power.

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“—so much more opportunity now." Her voice trails off. "Hurrah for women's lib, eh?" "The lib?" Impatiently she leans forward and tugs the serape…

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“He was wise in the ways of pain. He had to be, for he felt none. When the Xenons put electrodes to his testicles,…

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Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.

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“Nothing but the effects of dust and vapor in the thin skin of air whereupon she crawls wingless.”

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Certainly my inner world will never be a peaceful place of bloom; it will have some peace, and occasional riots of bloom, but always…

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Did you ever look into the personalities of male cooks, Army, logging camp, etc.? They're all supposed to be crazy, incomprehensible, contemptible. And angry.…

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I am one of those that always get accidentally guillotined when the Great Day of Liberation comes, because ... I guess ... I am…

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When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.

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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.

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The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history

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