"... all of my life I've made things that are like fragmented mirrors of what I perceive to be the world. As far as I'm concerned the fact that in 1990 the human body is still a taboo subject is unbelievably ridiculous. What exactly is frightening about the human body?"

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Source : David Wojnarowicz (2014). “Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration”, p.88, Open Road Media

David Wojnarowicz

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“I loved the domesticity of my life as a struggling actor. When I wasn't going to auditions, I could do things like cook dishes from scratch and take them to parties or be really thoughtful about birthdays and anniversaries.”
“When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental domain. The future cannot be separated from the present, and the present is painful beyond solace. â€˜This is my last experiment,â€™ wrote a young chemist in his suicide note. â€˜If there is any eternal torment worse than mine Iâ€™ll have to be shown.”

Source : Kay Redfield Jamison (2011). “Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide”, p.93, Vintage
“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.”

Source : Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.60, Penguin
“My adoptive mother tirelessly worked most of her life to build up my self-esteem. So what happened was finding her started to shed light and destroy my mythos. So for the first year of knowing [biological mother], my mom kind of actually literally visited me in Detroit and kind of gave me a tour of my life - where I was conceived, where I was born, where she found out she was pregnant. It was amazing and very emotional.”

Source : "For Key And Peele, Biracial Roots Bestow Special Comedic 'Power'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 20, 2013.
“A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.”

Source : Clifford Geertz (2017). “The Interpretation of Cultures”, p.98, Hachette UK
“Comfort comes from knowing that people have made the same journey. And solace comes from understanding how others have learned to sing again.”
“Neither sugar nor salt tastes particularly good by itself. Each is at its best when used to season other things. Love is the same way. Use it to "season" people.”
“Acting as a profession came to me by chance: in 1946, after the war, I was having lunch with my cousin, who was the Italian ambassador, and he asked, 'What are you going to do now you're out of uniform?' I said, 'I'm pretty inventive, and I can imitate people,' and he said, 'Have you thought about being an actor?'”

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