"Pain involves the violation or transgression of the border between inside and outside, and it is through this transgression that I feel the border in the first place"

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Source : Sara Ahmed (2014). “Cultural Politics of Emotion”, p.35, Edinburgh University Press

Sara Ahmed

#Pain Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Borders Quotes

“I quit school in the sixth grade because of pneumonia. Not because I had it, but because I couldn't spell it.”
“By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in about five weeks; I do several drafts, very, very furiously rewriting. I literally do more or less nothing else and I stick with it and go through it and I begin to hate it.”
“In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.”
“You have to believe that it is what you want to do with your life and you have to be dedicated to it.”
“The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse, was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of feeling which is induced by the flat spaces and wide horizons of the virgin prairie of western Canada.”

Source : T. E. Hulme, Patrick McGuinness (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.64, Psychology Press
“Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words on the other hand, were a lifeline. They left their hushed rhythm behind, a counter to the slow in and out of Emmeline's breathing.”
“We will never have real safety and security for wage earners unless we provide for safety and security for the wage payers and wage savers.”
“When all else is lost and gone forever, there is yearning. Only desire trumps time.”

Source : Charles Frazier (2006). “Thirteen Moons: A Novel”, p.5, Random House

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