"On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers."

-- Robert Wyatt

“This wasn't the first time I'd woken up as a captive. It wasn't even the second. I so needed to reevaluate my life choices.”
“In the final analysis our greatest problem with holiness is not that our concepts of holiness are feeble, but that our hearts are rebellious. We are selfish , that's our problem. And the fact that we often won't admit our selfishness shows how deep the pride goes.”
“He worked at stealing her heart to replace the one she'd taken from him.”
“We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability. We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.”
“A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.”

Source : 'Diana of the Crossways' (1885) ch. 1
“Because my mouth Is wide with laughter And my throat Is deep with song, You do not think I suffer after I have held my pain So long? Because my mouth Is wide with laughter You do not hear My inner cry? Because my feet Are gay with dancing You do not know I die?”
“Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs.”

Source : Song: Dreidel, Album: Don McLean
“Our very sexual identities are artifices and illusions, the result of a lifetime of striving.”

Source : John Stoltenberg (2005). “Refusing to be a Man: Essays on Social Justice”, p.7, Routledge

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