"If you live in a society that wishes you didn't exist, anything you do to make yourself happy disrupts its attempts to wipe you out, or at the very least, make you invisible."

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Source : Patrick Califia (2009). “Macho Sluts: A Little Sister's Classic”, Arsenal Pulp PressLtd

Patrick Califia

#Wish Quotes #Wipe Quotes #Invisible Quotes

“Certainly there are bubble-like valuations of certain companies, but I don't think anyone out there believes that we're going to go back to doing business the way we used to do business.”
“Buying is more American than thinking, and I'm as American as they come.”
“Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.”

Source : "In The Jester's Court". Interview with David Kupfer, thesunmagazine.org. February 2009.
“Punk Funk means to be one with yourself. To be rebellious, aggressive, able to do and say what you feel at all times, without inflicting mental or spiritual pain.”

Source : FaceBook post by Rick James from Jan 14, 2014
“Two percent of the people think; three percent think they think, and 95 percent would rather die than think.”
“The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman ... supplying, so far as he can, by speculation, the place of pleasures he can no longer enjoy.”
“The forms of my awareness are richer than yours.”
“When you recognize that failing doesn't make you a failure, you give yourself permission to try all sorts of things.”

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