"The Peruvian flute music is . . .……" — Kate Braverman
"The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads to excessive punctuality or the failed experiment they call the nuclear family. This is the music of elements, untarnished, unrehearsed."
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Kate Braverman
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17 Quotes by Kate Braverman
Kate Braverman has 17 quotes on this site.
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To be one woman, truly, wholly, is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds.
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All my friends are artists, so I am used to collective agony as a mode.
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All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do…
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Like I'm dragging bundles of old clothes? I'm carrying artifacts that breathe fire. I'm talking about a language of smoke.…
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As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.
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Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography.
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I have a great ability to improvise verbally and I am very funny on a dime.
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In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves.
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Just being in a room with myself is almost more stimulation than I can bear.
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I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the…
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I know California isn't a real destination. You can't get there from New Jersey, not simply by following a line…
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Women have waited millions of years, growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can…
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