"Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that."

-- Rick Moody

#Facts Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Bondage Quotes

“I've been doing interviews for years, and in all that time, I've virtually never read one and gone, 'Yep, factually and tonally that's exactly what happened.' Pretty much never.”
“The range of variation in the female far exceeds the range of variation in the male.”
“He that will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for other's good, is a poor, frozen churl.”

Source : Joanna Baillie (1802). “A series of plays, in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind [by J. Baillie”, p.253
“In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed - a class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.”
“(The pig) hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure - and for such a tomb might be content to die.”
“Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.”
“All Americans (from the vast continent America) were, are, or will be border crossers.”

Source : Guillermo Gomez-Pena (1993). “Warrior for Gringostroika: Essays, Performance Texts, and Poetry”
“Courage is always and only one thing: It is acting with fear, not without it.”

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