"The dizzy rapture of starving. The power of needing nothing. By force of will I make myself the impossible sprite who lives on air, on water, on purity."

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Source : Kathryn Harrison (2011). “The Kiss: A Memoir”, p.41, Random House

Kathryn Harrison

#Air Quotes #Water Quotes #Dizzy Quotes

“My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.”
“I never walked through the streets of any city with as much satisfaction as those of Philadelphia. The neatness and cleanliness of all animate and inanimate things, houses, pavements, and citizens, is not to be surpassed.”
“I think we are in a non-essentialist bubbleâ€”everything seems importantâ€”so of course nothing is.”
“Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.”

Source : Jonathan Carroll (2012). “Kissing the Beehive”, p.174, Open Road Media
“I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and photographers. The Ones who waited through long days and nights, who used other people's dreams for their lives.”
“Whether our feet are compressed in iron shoes, our faces hidden with veils and masks; whether yoked with cows to draw the plow through its furrows, or classed with idiots, lunatics and criminals in the laws and constitutions of the State, the principle is the same; for the humiliations of the spirit are as real as the visible badges of servitude.”
“I'm extremely critical. I don't consider myself a performance artist. I balk at the term performance art.”

Source : "'Hyper subtle sexual ego'". Interview with Peter Nowogrodzki, logger.believermag.com. June 4, 2014.
“But please remember, that in 1991 in the Seym [lower chamber of polish parliament] I didn't demand the abolishment of Special Economic Zones. I demanded the creation of a single Special Economic Zone - which would encompass the whole country!”

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