"i wanted to try things, everything, especially things that are illegal and have a faint whiff of glamour."

-- Michelle Tea

#Trying Quotes #Glamour Quotes #Illegal Quotes

“Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.”
“There's a great temptation to clean everything up and make everything more perfect. You have to know when to stop and stop doing it, or you might end up with something that sounds metronomic.”
“All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome”
“As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.”
“It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns are "types," abstracted and self-abstractive victims of a process of stereotyping that afflicts even would-be rebels and anarchists.”
“The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant.”
“i'm back at my cliff still throwing things off i listen to the sounds they make on their way down i follow him with my eyes 'till they crash imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks.”
“No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.”

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