"Even a woman who has the soul of a pirate, at least pirate morals, even a woman who ... has constraints to heterosexual marriage, even a woman who is a freak in our society needs a home. The only characteristic freaks share is our knowledge that we don't fit in."

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Source : "Don Quixote: A Novel". Book by Kathy Acker, 1986.

Kathy Acker

#Home Quotes #Pirate Quotes #Soul Quotes

“Where did all the money go? The Aam Aadmi wants to know.”
“Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals.”

Source : William Winwood Reade (1892). “The Martyrdom of Man”
“A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure.”
“If I have a chance to positively impact how the populace views DJs, then I'm going to try to do my part to nudge things in the right direction.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one is filled with a sense of hopelessness; in a year and possibly even a month, there is now more economic comment in the supposedly serious literature than survives from the whole of the thousand years commonly denominated as the Middle Ages ... anyone who claims to be familiar with it all is a confessing liar.' I believe that all physicists would subscribe to the same sentiments regarding their own professional literature. I do at any rate.”
“Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions during difficult times.”

Source : Jack Gantos (2002). “Hole in My Life”, p.8, Macmillan
“But what virtue I do have is in me and of me. Men deny the good that comes from themselves, calling it God. So do they with their won evil, calling it the Devil.”
“Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.”

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