"You try to be good, to be good……" — Michelle Tea
"You try to be good, to be good and loving and nice and not hard, not tough, a sweet nice girl, not ugly, not full of ugliness, but people make it impossible."
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17 Quotes by Michelle Tea
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There are a lot of queers starved for entertainment from their own community.
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I drank some coffee and my outlook improved immensely. I was ready to write some poems and, I don’t know,…
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you are right where you should be / now act like it
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Maybe if everyone walked around being in touch with each other's hidden pain it could work out and even be…
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i wanted to try things, everything, especially things that are illegal and have a faint whiff of glamour.
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it just breaks / a man's heart, watching / a girl so involved with her life, / without him like…
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This is growing up, having to stomp out love, this is how people turn terrible.
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Maybe we could all take care of each other, I dreamed.
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I will meet you in the dirtiest city you can dream of. We will drink cocktails so sweet they pucker…
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Remember when i slept with my head in a puddle at your feet? It was humility, or atonement. later your…
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How do you make a girl know she's beautiful? What is the system for that, what do you show her,…
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The horror of knowing someone and living with them and even thinking you're lucky and then wham and now you…
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