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“As with all inferior things, this part of the city was given an adjective while the rest stole the noun.”
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“Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act just like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful, and lowdown.”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple
“Sometimes I think the only real division into two is between people who divide everything into two and those who don't.”
― My Life on the Road
― My Life on the Road
“For in Western culture, music itself is always in danger of being regarded as the feminine Other that circumvents reason and arouses desire.”
― Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality
― Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality
“A day or two after my love pronouncement, now feral with vulnerability, I sent you the passage from Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes in which Barthes describes how the subject who utters the phrase “I love youâ€� is like “the Argonaut renewing his ship during its voyage without changing its name.â€� Just as the Argo’s parts may be replaced over time but the boat is still called the Argo, whenever the lover utters the phrase “I love you,â€� its meaning must be renewed by each use, as “the very task of love and of language is to give to one and the same phrase inflections which will be forever new.”
― The Argonauts
― The Argonauts
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The F-word
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