"It's necessary in order to attract attention, to dazzle at all costs, to be disapproved of by serious people and quoted by the foolish."

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Source : Jill Johnston (1973). “Lesbian nation: the feminist solution”, Simon & Schuster

Jill Johnston

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“I sometimes have the sense that I live my life as a writer with my nose pressed against the wide, shiny plate glass window of the"mainstream" culture. The world seems full of straight, large-circulation, slick periodicals which wouldn't think of reviewing my book and bookstores which will never order it.”

Source : Jan Clausen (1989). “Books & Life”
“Ever wonder how much patience you should have with someone, you know, before you lose your temper? Infinite. But careful now. That doesn't mean you have to wait for them, stay with them, or hang around them. Lord no, it just means that for as long as you choose to keep them in your life, understanding them, not changing them, is everything.”
“My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.”

Source : Hans Christian Andersen (2013). “The True Story of My Life”, Lulu Press, Inc
“At least 99.92% of illegal immigrants and visa overstays without known crimes on their records did not face removal.”
“You blow in this end of the trombone and sound comes out the other end and disrupts the cosmos.”
“Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.”
“there is a great choice that awaits us every day: whether we go around carving holes in others because we have been so painfully carved ourselves, or whether we let spirit play its song through our tender experience, enabling us to listen, as well, to the miraculous music coming through others.”
“Example is the best precept.”

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