"He ["the male"] is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than apes, because he is, first of all, capable of a large array of negative feelings that the apes aren't - hate, jealousy, contempt, disgust, guilt, shame, disgrace, doubt - and, secondly, he is aware of what he is and isn't."

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Source : "SCUM Manifesto". Book by Valerie Solanas, p. 1, 1967.

Valerie Solanas

#Hate Quotes #Twilight Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Beautiful thoughts flit across the brain, like butterflies in the sun's rays, and are as difficult to capture.”
“Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.”

Source : Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.70, Vintage
“Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Every golfer has a little monster in him. It's just that type of sport.”
“If your opponent wants to fight, the fight will be very interesting not just for the audience, but for myself.”
“I’m very interested in sublimation. I love the way Francis Bacon talked about the grin without the cat, the sensation without the boredom of its conveyance… I’ve always wanted to be able to convey figurative imagery in a kind of shorthand, to get it across in as direct a way as possible. I want there to be a human presence without having to depict it in full.”
“Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.”
“It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.”

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