"I was a normal American nerd."

#Nerd Quotes #Normal Quotes

“Shame is the turnkey that keeps our evil desires in jail.”
“The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl.”

Source : Barry Hannah (2010). “Long, Last, Happy: New and Collected Stories”, p.123, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“I would like to sing someone to sleep, to sit beside someone and be there. I would like to rock you and sing softly and go with you to and from sleep. I would like to be the one in the house who knew: The night was cold. And I would like to listen in and listen out into you, into the world, into the woods. The clocks shout to one another striking, and one sees to the bottom of time. And down below one last, strange man walks by and rouses a strange dog. And after that comes silence. I have laid my eyes upon you wide; and they hold you gently and let you go when something stirs in the dark.”
“History is the "know thyself" of humanity - the self-consciousness of mankind.”
“Sex is the ... tremulous and bewildering and nerve-racking and delicious and myriad-adjectived soul-condition ... generally known as love. Ninety-nine point nine repeater percent of the world's literature has been devoted to its analysis. It's therefore of some importance.”
“the modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don't fill up my life?”
“I liked performing, but not the struggle.”
“Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.”

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