"I didn't want to be different. I longed to be everything grownups wanted, so they would love me. I followed all their rules, tried my best to please. But there was something about me that made them knit their eyebrows and frown. No one ever offered a name for what was wrong with me. That's what made me afraid it was really bad. I only came to recognize its melody through this constant refrain: 'Is that a boy or a girl?'"

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Source : Leslie Feinberg (2010). “Stone Butch Blues”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

Leslie Feinberg

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“Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.”
“When something is too beautiful or too terrible or even too funny for words, then it is time for poetry.”
“Advise persons never to engage in killing.”
“The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto.”
“If it is true that there is no greater sorrow than to remember a happy time in a state of misery, it is just as true that calling up a moment of anguish in a tranquil mood, seated quietly at one's desk, is a source of profound satisfaction.”

Source : Primo Levi (1984). “The periodic table”, Schocken
“Someone Should Write Me a Love Poem but I'm Stuck Doing It Myself”

Source : Daphne Gottlieb (2008). “Kissing Dead Girls”, p.120, Soft Skull Press
“I was always into animation, especially.”

Source : Source: dailydead.com
“Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation.”

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